Word: adapter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...activity of the House of Commons, if I may adapt and adopt an ancient phrase, 'is the activity of the soul and the way of virtue or not without virtue, and that, too, in a full sense.' I think the decision of Lord Denman, then Lord Chief Justice, in a case many years ago, is sufficient for the present purpose. Lord Denman said...
...have not been satisfied to abbreviate and adapt definitions made originally for adults and for adults of much ability and knowledge. What has a clear and correct meaning to a well-informed adult may confuse and mislead a child. We, therefore, frame our definitions directly to meet the needs of children...
...Roach). With the notable exception of Walt Disney cartoons, fantasy is not a form of entertainment in which the cinema excels. Particularly in fantasy for children, there usually prevails a certain horrid condescension on the part of producers who, unwilling to risk inventing fantasies of their own, prefer to adapt classics. This fact makes it hard to believe that any adaptation of Victor Herbert's famed operetta would amount to more than a ridiculous calamity. Fortunately, Producer Hal Roach, well-versed in the art of gag comedies, saw fit to throw most of his original material out the studio window...
...moment later has him rub his belly. This kneads the stomach and spreads the barium cream evenly into all the wrinkles, leaving their ridges bare and transparent to x-rays. The roentgenogram appears striped. Every deflected stripe indicates potentially serious trouble. Dr. Hampton now is trying to adapt the same method to showing the haustra, or tucks, of the colon which often churn up disease...
...difficult to understand the attitude of the Princeton authorities, an attitude meriting no other name than intolerance. The custom of forced attendance at church is a gross anachronism. More significant, it is a serious impediment to the cause of religion, struggling mightily to adapt itself to a changing world. To attempt to stimulate religious belief by cramming it down a man's throat is folly. The normal individual not only resents such a practice, but will have a lifelong prejudice against the food of which he partakes so grudgingly...