Word: accordance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although in accord with Professor Slichter's motive, an increase in faculty salaries, Sellers insisted that additional funds be raised without increases in tuition. Rising demand for higher education seems to point in the direction of a program of federal aid such as that proposed by President Conant, he declared...
Such statements are no more in accord with the facts than is TIME'S statement that pickups ranging to 7,000 cycles ". . . fail to catch the high overtones of a flute." Of all musical instruments, the flute is distinguished by its complete lack of overtones on its higher notes, and the extremely thin harmonic structure of its low tones. The highest overtone produced by a flute is about 2,500 cycles...
...cuts open the abdomen below the ribs with a sweep of the knife, grasps the exposed heart with his right hand and squeezes it like a bulb. After a few minutes' massage, Mr. Bailey triumphantly reported, some of his patients' hearts began to beat of their own accord, and the patients recovered. Other surgeons have had similarly successful results...
...forms of public ownership. . . . ¶ "The moral purpose of economic life is social justice. . . . The purposes of economic life, therefore, are: 1) To develop natural resources and human skills for the benefit of mankind. 2) To distribute God's gifts equitably. 3) To provide useful employment for everyone according to his abilities and needs under conditions that are in accord with his human dignity as a child of God. 4) To develop human personality through cooperation with others in work and ownership. ¶ "The profit motive must be subordinated to the moral law. . . . "The common good necessitates the organization...
Paris they fight for an arrangement which will allow Yugoslavia to dominate Trieste. In Berlin they carry on a continued press campaign against the Western World but ban our newspapers from their sector if they contain the slightest criticism of Soviet policy. . . . They always appeal to the Potsdam accord when it serves their ends and violate it when it suits their purposes...