Word: adapter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the Junior Varsity shell at New London, now assumes the healm. With him is H. H. Haines as Freshman mentor. Arthur Hobson '24, and Stephen Heard '25, complete the coaching roster. Brown is a man of ideas who "lives" crew all day and who can teach it and adapt it to his pupils. Brown has been a success, and high hopes are entertained that the tradition of the class boats will be carried on to the University...
...tutorial system is perhaps the most interesting of recent experiments in American university education. Introduced on trial, it was decided not to adopt the English system on bloc, but to adapt that system to local needs. The method was first employed...
...anaconda is distinguished from other boas by two characteristics which adapt it to aquatic habits: plates, instead of scales, on the head, which enable it to shut its nostrils and remain submerged for some time, like moose, whales, beavers; and bearing its young alive (viviparous) instead of laying eggs (oviparous). Like its cousins it is at home in trees, but more often it lies submerged in a water-hole, with only the eyes above water. It strikes dead with a hammering head blow or seizes its prey in its jaws: secures the carcass in a coil of its body; constricts...
Berliners, scanning Eudoxia's autobiography, became convinced that she conscientiously wrote it herself. What "feature writer" would have set down bluntly: "Bulgarian women are naturally inclined to adapt themselves to the reasoning of men. Consequently we consider uncalled for such an innovation as women's suffrage...
...said, "This is one of the evils often produced by industrialism. A possible remedy is emigration but the difficulty there is that the surplus workers do not as a rule settle on the land. They have received a highly specialized training and they are both unable and unwilling to adapt themselves to new conditions...