Word: conforming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pick out the item which violates a positive rule or characteristic of the other five: adjacent, conform, deprive, liken, oblivious, prior...
...utopian is in truth nothing more than that it is a plan. It would substitute for the haphazard standard of Harvard's instruction methods, allowed to exist by accident or whim or unfortified tradition, a policy. The policy would be a standard to which no course would have to conform but which would be there as a guide, a stimulus away from haphazardness and toward an ideal...
...adjacent conform deprive liken oblivious prior
...utters things that everyone accepts is an absurdity." Father & son issued a joint statement pointing out that an Episcopal minister "is not the employee of the vestry or of a board of trustees. Nor does he speak for the people of his parish in the sense that he must conform to the sentiments of the majority ... To say that he may speak his mind fully in the pulpit, but to deny him the right to apply his conscientious beliefs to concrete situations and issues ... is to restrict and abridge any real freedom...
...other measures in his budget. Said he: ". . . We must remember that the economic plan is not something of which any Government can guarantee the execution. ... In some matters, the Government can assist in bringing about the desired results; in others, it must be for the people themselves to conform voluntarily to the needs of the situation...