Word: conforming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jesus] saw clearly that if all kindness were embodied in some legal system, and nothing were left to individual pity and self-denial, it would be a miserable world. Men might secure more comfort but they would miss the true end of life, which is to conform your own will to the will...
Within a few months the many civilian students who departed for war were being replaced by personnel enrolled in newly established Army-Navy schools. With only two dissenting votes, the Faculty agreed to the president's suggestion to convert to a tri-semester basis in order to conform to the demands of the armed forces...
...April 26, 1698, Peter I called the leading Russians to his country place, Preobrazhenskoye, and told them they had to conform to Western custom by shaving off their beards. With his own hand Peter gave his noblemen's whiskers a rough...
...March 15, 1946 Joseph Stalin called the leading Russians to the Kremlin and told them they would have to conform to Western custom by calling themselves ministers instead of commissars. With his own hand Stalin signed the suggestion to have his own title changed to prime minister...
...Exists? What does Existence mean? You will keep on implying some sort of static, ready-made reality which is, so to speak, 'there,' and to which our minds have simply to conform. These great mysteries cannot be approached in that way. . . . God, for me, is something purely spiritual. The spirit of sweetness and light and tolerance-and, er, service, Dick, service. We mustn't forget that...