Word: conforming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jacobs emphasized that his group was not interested in "horse-trading" hours, but rather in re-evaluating the entire system of parietal rules. "These rules must conform to the dating habits of the students," he said, "or there is no point in having them...
...story Leverett towers, which are built in a 100-foot, "residential B-3" zone, and Quincy House, built in a 65-foot C-3 zone, both conform to city laws...
...loyalty affidavits are useless, since true conspirators would not hesitate to sign them; second, the oath and affidavit single out the academic profession and young students as a group whose loyalty is suspect; third, the affidavit is dangerously vague and demands that applicants for funds must have beliefs that conform to an undefined and variable norm of safe political thinking. Finally, the affidavit and oath serve as dangerous precedent for burdening future governmental aid to education with political strictures. Harvard has rightly decided that these obnoxious features of the loyalty oath preclude acceptance of the government's funds...
...general, we Lakota (Sioux) are learning to conform to the customs of our white brothers and sisters. There is one custom that we do not intend to conform to-bathing beauty contests. Even the poorest of our Lakota women manage to cover their nakedness. They do not make public display of their bare hide or their bathing habits...
Despite last week's O.K. on new competition, U.S. lines found some cheer in the decisions. They showed a real change in U.S. policy to conform to the new competitive facts. What made the decisions different was not so much what the U.S. granted-BOAC, Air France and Air India were entitled to the routes under reciprocal exchanges-as the manner of giving. France had formally denounced its bilateral air route agreement with the U.S. 13 months ago, insisted on getting "double trackage" rights, i.e., the right to serve any U.S. city where a U.S. carrier originates a flight...