Word: conformity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Committee is anxious that all Seniors should arrange to have their photographs taken at Notman's Studio as soon as possible. Pictures taken at any other studio should be sent to William K. Wyant '35 and must conform to certain standards as stated in the notice columns...
...Field case and the second from the Hampton case. "Congress cannot delegate legislative power to the President." And in "Hampton v. U. S.": "If Congress shall lay down by legislative act an intelligible principle to which the person or body authorized to fix such rates is directed to conform, such legislative action is not a forbidden delegation of legislative power." Such contradictions illustrate the trials and tribulations of a judge. V. H. Kramer...
...itself was expanding independently of its matter and Hubble & Humason at Mount Wilson confirmed this expanding universe theory by actual observations. Thus Einstein's universe fell into general disfavor, without at all impairing the General Theory of Relativity. Four years ago Einstein accordingly revised his original universe to conform with these observations...
...when he was three, and he and his infant sister were adopted (though never legally) by kind-hearted Richmond families. Poe adored his foster-mother, Mrs. Allan, but never got along with his "Pa." Though he was brought up as a little Virginia gentleman, he soon ceased to conform. Tragedy visited him early and often, did nothing to thicken an already abnormally thin skin. At 15 he had his second bereavement, when an older woman whom he worshipped died insane. Always romantically attached to some woman, Poe was engaged to be married when he went to the University of Virginia...
...Infantile paralysis, diphtheria, tuberculosis, and cancer are diseases which broadcasters frequently discuss over the radio but Columbia Broadcasting drew the line at Dr. Parran's subject. Nonetheless, he appeared at CBS's Manhattan studio to tell the nation about syphilis. Would he alter his prepared text to conform with what the company considered good public taste? Indeed he would not. Thereupon CBS refused him a microphone. Next day Dr. Parran resigned from the National Advisory Council on Radio in Education because its Secretary-Director Levering Tyson had not backed him up. He also set up a vigorous...