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Still, beyond collectability, style and functionality, Eastside Golf’s founders believe there are bigger takeaways for the conventionalist sport.

From New York Times Apr. 8, 2022

He was very far, however, from being the conventionalist of those days, and the younger students used to look greatly askance at him.

From A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell by Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

"Not at all," said Barriovero the conventionalist, very gravely.

From Youth and Egolatry by Jacob S. (Jacob Sloat) Fassett

Lance was a conventionalist; he clung instinctively to traditions that were getting out of date.

From Partners of the Out-Trail by Harold Bindloss

The conventionalist would seek it in moral obliquity; the radical, in a temperament that is irked by the superficialities that comprise so large a part of conventional standards.

From Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground by Constance Lindsay Skinner




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