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Word: conformers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Therefore, it must follow that since the hole-in-one was the result of planned deliberation on your part, your failure to get a hole-in-one at any time is necessarily the result of an accident. The ball does not conform with your plans since you struck it in a manner other than that which you intended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Letters, Aug. 21, 1939 | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

Shoulders are vaguely broader. Bosoms conform to high, lifted lines. Everyone agrees on the minute waist line. Full skirts-"the bouncing, double, swing skirt"-are shorter, straight moulded skirts are longer. The steatopygous bustle is definitely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Fashion Notes | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

...September 19 California will put into effect its "Jackie Coogan Law,'' by which the courts will set aside half the cinema earnings of minors in a trust fund protected from their parents. Approved last week by Superior Judge Emmett H. Wilson was the first contract written to conform with the act, between Universal Pictures and 16-year-old Deanna Durbin. Cinemactress Durbin's earnings in the next five years will total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Protected | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

Said Washington Columnist David Lawrence: "So also an arbitrary Government could say that all newspapers which do not conform to the Government's ideas of what constitutes good will in published articles, shall lose second class mail privileges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: FCC Rules the Waves | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...hope that instructors will refuse to accept without protest examinations couched in a style which does not conform to 'reasonable' standards of clearness and correctness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Committee Looks for Better Grammar in Written Exams. | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

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