Word: adaptation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mars, its seasonal changes (suggesting the growth of vegetation) and its geometrically regular details (suggesting intelligent designers and builders) will be explained away by further research -and with them all life on Mars. But perhaps not. "We [have not] demonstrated," De Vaucouleurs says hopefully, "that life could not adapt itself to the known conditions of dryness, temperature, atmospheric pressure and atmospheric composition [on Mars]-after all not so very different from...
...shall the church adapt its leadership to the changing society? One faction, led by Laval University's dean of social sciences, the Very Rev. Georges-Henri ("Jolly Monk") Lévesque, argues for a militant championship of the working class; this faction has promoted cooperatives and Catholic trade unions. An opposing group, supported by Quebec's Premier Maurice Duplessis, believes that the rural parish society must be strengthened and that the church must stay aloof from class antagonisms, though it should fight for social justice...
That seemed a conservative prediction, if the big builders like Levitt could keep on thinking up new mass-production tricks, and small merchant builders could adapt more of them to their operations, thus broadening the market for small, cheap houses. By stabilizing the construction industry, builders could offer more permanent work to labor, and thus eliminate the cause of the featherbedding that now adds so much to building costs. And as efficiency increased, the mass builders might also find that they could economically supply some of the individuality that their houses now lack...
...shown great capacity to adapt itself to a changing world...
Jordan ran most of his plays last year from the T formation, although he was schooled in the single and double-wing tradition of Pop Warner. However, Jordan can adapt his style and cannot say definitely what style offense he will use until he speaks with his squad. Jordan placed great emphasis on conditioning and fundamentals at Amherst...