Word: adapt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Agreeing with the foundation, Orlick wants to adapt traditional sports so that all players are equally involved in the action. In volleyball, for instance, he suggests that all six players on a team hit the ball before it goes over the net; and in basketball he encourages more balanced scoring by subtracting the points made by the highest and lowest scorers of each team. Other popular games are manipulated so the final score...
...steam turbines. Even after the mill, in its last metamorphosis as a leather tannery, closed down five years ago, Hermie stayed on as maintenance man. Now, on a lower floor crowded with alternative vehicles (from steam cars to electric motorcycles), Hermie's project within The Project is to adapt to battery power a gas-powered vehicle he detests: the snowmobile...
Whifflers find they have to adapt to unusual conditions around Harvard because of cyclical changes of spring. Every year about this time, just when the turf should take on a green hue and provide limitless acreage for whiffleball diamonds, traditions intervene...
...Ecological modes change and it is in their progressive adaptation to these changes that culture adapt their characteristic forms," Marvin Harris said yesterday at the Peabody Museum lecture series...
Bravo for "The Computer Society" [Feb. 20]. The rapid advance of technology might be a more frightening phenomenon if man's ability to change and adapt were not what put us in this position in the first place...