Word: conformer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gallon (277.4). The government bill abolishes entirely the linear measurement, beloved of school textbooks, known as rod, pole or perch, a 5 ½yd. unit based originally on the combined length of the left feet of 16 men. The government also lengthens the yard* and lightens the pound to conform to international standards, and in five years it will also abolish pennyweight, scruple and drachm...
...book proves itself more than a kind of private school Peyton Place. Benedictus' obviously partisan aim is to indict the Eton system for destroying a poor boy named Scarfe because, as a plebeian farmer's son brought to the school in a "democratic" experiment, he cannot conform to it socially, and for corrupting a rich boy named Phillips by giving him no socially acceptable choice except conformity...
...only giving worth-while examinations, it is acting consistently with the principles of a "General," liberal arts education. These principles have always stressed the use, rather than the accumulation, of information; and the final examination, if it is to be an integral part of the educational process, should conform to the principles behind that process...
...required that all doctors conform to the plan, accept a schedule of fees fixed by the government, and not engage in any private practice on the side...
...early years, West took his themes largely from mythology and, like the Greeks, sought not only to portray beauty but also to explore the realm of the ideal. He advised his students to seek the ideal measurements of the human figure and to make their own paintings conform...