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...registers in each room. Stewart-Warner has not announced the cost of such a central heater but estimates that a one-room unit will cost $20 to $30. It also estimates that fuel costs will be no higher than those of the oldfashioned furnace. The company also plans to adapt the burner for fuel oil and natural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Smaller & Hotter | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

...good coach is the one who can adapt a system to the type of club he has." According to Lamar, Harvard usually has relatively light clubs, and for this reason the Harlow system has stressed deception...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAMAR LAUDS NEW ATHLETES | 8/15/1944 | See Source »

...Virgin Islands eight years ago she achieved local fame by refusing to adapt herself to the British-style traffic rules, consistently drove on the wrong side of the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Oct. 25, 1943 | 10/25/1943 | See Source »

TIME's General Manager is fond of saying that magazines are like people: they are born and they die, and those live longest which most readily adapt themselves to their times. We like to think that TIME has changed and grown with the world it has reported for twenty years-and twenty years from now I will be very much surprised if our table of contents is not quite different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Aug. 9, 1943 | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

...Daedalus. Imprisoned by Minos in the labyrinth in Crete, Daedalus had fixed wings to his shoulders with wax and flown to Sicily. Had the great Hannibal been home, instead of wandering about Italy hunting for legions to defeat, they assured one another, he would have known how to adapt the solo flight to military needs. He would have flown an army in. It was clearly the only way. Wiseacres added that a day would come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle Of Sicily: Wings Needed | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

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