Word: conformed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arrived, he stirred up protests against the management of the University Library that culminated in a reorganization of Widener's system. At his irrepressible insistence, Harvard's diffuse studies of language were forged into a vigorous Department of Comparative Philology (the name became "Department of Linguistics" in 1951 to conform to current usage). His relentless emphasis on statistical method in the analysis of language has enabled this department to pioneer the new mathematical approach to language that now promises to bring order into the thoroughly confirmed field of linguistics. In addition, Whatmough's outspokenness, and his unimpeachable sense of style...
Hopefully, the forthcoming booklet will serve as an impetus to further discussion of examination philosophy and policy. The CEP has emphasized that the study has not been undertaken with the intention of making professors conform to any "ideal" standard for examinations, but it does hope that the results of the symposium will be suggestive and informative...
...material inscribed with some of the words on the painting to which the Confederates so greatly object. If anything is distasteful to certain groups within the state, requests have been made for its removal whether this unfavorable object be a person, painting, or written article. Should history and art conform to the wishes of these people simply because they do not approve...
...hoped that the report will influence thinking about examinations on the level of the individual teacher. The study is not intended to make professors conform to an "ideal" type of examination, but to encourage them to think creatively about the tests they give...
...First standardized by Henry I (1100-1135), who made it conform to the distance between his nose and outstretched right thumb...