Word: conformers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...girls have set up a chart to which the boys must conform. Intelligence counts twenty points, the highest. The ability to understand the word "no" counts five percent, the lowest. Which all boils down to the fact that a young man can be ninety-five percent perfect and have a pretty good time for a dime...
...diving boards are longer than the old ones and were installed in order to conform to a new requirement of the Intercollegiate Swimming Association. The purpose of the new ruling was to require a board which would give more of a lift than did the former 14-foot ones. This will add considerably to the grace and variety of diving...
...greatest practical argument against a Harvard-Army game. The story of this is well known. It is not for anyone to dictate to Army what its own eligibility standards should be, but it would certainly make for fairer rivalry if the nation's training school for young men would conform to the ruling which practically every college employs. The CRIMSON did not attempt to speak for the players, who would have to be consulted if any action were to be taken, not did it fail to realize that no such action could come before the expiration of four years. Even...
Advertisements in cheap, pornographic ("love" and "art") magazines conform to the standard of their fiction and illustrations but often fall a step lower. Pages are packed with announcements of "red hot" photographs, vigor tablets ("Glow of Life"), bust developers, sex secrets, aphrodisiacs ("Essence of Ecstasy"), contraceptives. Plentiful also are the advertisements of so-called matrimonial bureaus which will furnish lists of lonely men & women, object matrimony. Stressed in the advertisements, prominent on the lists are Wealthy Widows. Sample advertisements...
...deciding to allow entrance credit in subjects which do not conform exactly with the College Board Requirements, the University of California adopts an excellent solution to a perennial problem. Unable to change the rigidity of the Board system, California follows other colleges in declaring its emancipation from this restrictive mechanism...