Word: conforming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dont start out for New Haven in an automobile, until you make sure that its headlights conform with the law!" This warning was issued by the Connectient State Police yesterday in a circular letter which was sent out from Hartford headquarters...
...tendency in modern biography to be fair instead of flattering, to tell the plain facts instead of forcing the great man to conform to the thesis of the book, began with Lytton Strachey's "Queen Victoria" The new method was so interesting and compelling that later biographies had perforce to copy the manner or fail to arrest attention. But where a man has been made into a myth, as Stevenson certainly has, the task of the biographer becomes doubly hard, for he must go against accepted opinion, and people will only half believe what he says...
...King. The Government, or Hejaz National Committee, then elected Ali (oldest son of Husein, Emir of Medina) King of Hejaz, in accordance with the terms of the abdication. It was expressly stated, however, that the offer of the throne was made on condition that Ali conform to the wishes of the people of Hejaz. His father's throne was accepted by Ali on this condition; but the throne of the Califate was left vacant until the election of a Calif by the Pan-Islamic Committee. at Cairo, unless Ibn Saud should capture Mecca and elect himself Calif...
...will be approximately 130 feet by 56 feet. The front of the building will have four large wood pilasters of about the same size as those in the rear, and two smaller pilasters, one on each side of the door. The style of architecture will be Georgian, and will conform to a large degree with the buildings in the Yard...
...Sunday morning at 2 o'clock summer daylight saving time will come to an official end. At this time, every watch and clock must be set back one hour in order to conform with eastern standard time...