Word: adaptable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worst U.S. crop pests are immigrants. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is usually quick to import the enemies of each new pest, but to adapt these delicate and specialized creatures to life in a new country often takes time. And if the wrong enemy is brought in, the cure may be worse than the disease...
...Adapt to Conditions...
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...mammals were still furtive, slinking creatures, the mighty dinosaur, king of the reptiles, ruled the earth. Then about 60 million years ago, the last of the dinosaurs vanished. The mammals inherited the earth and have bossed it ever since. Some geologists believe that the dinosaurs were too specialized to adapt themselves to a sudden change of climate. The trouble with the theory has always been that there is no way to prove that the climate really changed. Last week the University of Chicago's Dr. Harold Urey told a Los Angeles meeting of the American Association for the Advancement...
...section men will have to adapt themselves from a full credit course to a half course which will extend throughout the year. The new course will be related to the G.E. program in the Humanities, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences...