Word: conformers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...without much fuss about the selection of the music itself. The demands of the opposite type are a little harder to satisfy, especially in the case of a professional musician who, though he may favor more discrimination and enterprise in the selection of his concert lists, is forced to conform to the taste of the greater part of the public which supports him. In the case of an amateur or professional who performs for the benefit of a small, select audience, the problem is much simpler. Here the planner is under no obligation to a public and is perfectly free...
...Wage & Hour Law. Administrator Elmer Frank Andrews has been able to get wide compliance mainly because: 1) he is a reasonable man; 2) the Act's demands are modest (25? an hour, 44 hours a week); 3) the penalties are so stiff that Business had to try to conform to a miserably written statute. Last week Mr. Andrews, vexed just as much as Business by the bungled law, asked Congress to cure the worst defects. His chief proposals...
...Eastern Europe anyway, he might just as well let the Hungarians take Carpatho-Ukraine for him. It was noteworthy that the Hungarian Parliament quickly passed stringent anti-Semitic bills. Chances were that Ferenc Szalasi, imprisoned Nazi leader, would soon be released. Uneasy over the future, Hungary was careful to conform to Nazi "ideals" last week...
...notes conform rather strictly to type. Each starts with an explanation of the game, although one, signed "Box 1300 (lucky, I hope!)" maintained that the writer was a Sophomore., just doing...
...conservative colleagues; because of his celebrated minority opinions, vritten in league with his great contemporary Justice Holmes, the phrase "Holmes and Brandeis dissenting" has become famous in the annals of Court history. Now that the opinions of the high tribunal have in recent years come more closely to conform with his own, it is certain that there will be others to carry on the liberal tradition...