Word: conformity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...former pupils of old Don Benedetto, most had gone with the wind of the times. Only one, Pietro Spina, refused to conform. When, weary of exile, he came back to Italy to see how the land lay. he found his former comrades scattered, missing or "reformed." A friendly peasant hid Spina in a shed, an old schoolmate had just enough courage to get him a disguise, send him off to a mountain village. Garbed as Don Paolo, a priest on vacation. Spina slowly got his bearings again, gradually began to sound out the political temper of his neighbors. Against...
Announcing preliminary plans for their convention, the students declared, "The people of the United States have been frequently told, and are becoming increasingly aware, that some alteration might be necessary in the Constitutional structure to make it conform with modern conditions and facts in our economic and social life...
...Colonies. This apparently spent most of its time printing translations of the Bible in the first of which were made in 1661 by John Eliot in the Indians dislects, and sent out where the Indians could digest them in their accustomed surroundings. It was necessary to conform to the Charter of 1650, which dedicated the College "to the education of the English and Indian Youth...
...depart from Washington, Mr. Lewis gave him a parting kick in the pants. He summoned him as a member of the United Mine Workers to answer charges in Washington this week of 1) conspiring to oust the U. M. W. from the A. F. of L.; 2) failure to conform to the official policies of U. M. W.; 3) fraternizing with avowed enemies of U. M. W.; 4) misrepresenting the objectives...
...Fritz Cohen from Germany. This compelled Kurt Jooss to go touring, although his dancers still needed more training. The troupe gained grace and prestige with the addition of Hans Zuellig, 22-year-old Swiss (The Big City) and pretty Noelle de Mosa, 19, a Java-born Dutch baroness. Both conform to the Jooss type, employ the widest and most theatrical use of pantomime...