Word: conforming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then act upon that knowledge, are shrouded in complete darkness." Lawyers as a body are not, at any rate as yet, very sympathetic to this explanation of human conduct as determining human responsibilities. Cooperation, they argue, is a condition of life in civilized communities. When a person fails to conform to the standards of society and gives the minimum amount of cooperation, as required by the criminal law, the community for its own protection, must impose the prescribed penalties, if such a nonconformist has the mentality to understand what Society expects of him. Definitions of legal insanity are designed...
...international affairs this platform does not conform to Labor's proposals, but it does, more fully than any other political platform, meet Labor's views in relation to domestic economic issues...
Present standards need only a little changing here and there in order to conform with those of the 20 other American republics: the yard must be stretched; the quart must take on international proportions-become a world quart. Canada is expected to follow the U. S. in participation...
Farm relief. The President advocated relief. Congress has as yet passed no measure of this type, and although such a measure will probably be passed, it Vill probably not conform to all the conditions laid down by the President...
During 1923-1924 two bequests received by the New England AntiVivisection Society totaled $99,539.26. The trustees are compelled to find ways of spending this money that will conform to the antivivisectionist ideas of the donors. Said the Journal of the American Medical Association: "The hands of the dead reach forth to draw the living into the grave...