Word: adaptions
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...tape recorder. When used in the home, the film will catch baby's first coos and gurgles as well as his early toddlings. The sound can be erased and changed for each showing of the film. A salesman exhibiting his company's product can adapt his canned spiel to fit the weak spots of the individual customer...
While appearing as an expert witness in the 1925 Scopes anti-evolution trial in Dayton, Tennessee, Mather saw "the bigotry of so-called religious men." He has tried to adapt his scientific research with a striving for higher ethical ideals. Writing in the Christian Century, he notes: "No wonder there is a widespread desire for more Christianity in higher education. If civilization is to be saved from catastrophe, the ethical and social consciousness of each individual must be greatly strengthened, renewed, and improved. Where better to concentrate upon that task than in our colleges and universities...
...order to adopt the best possible legal system, the Israeli Government had to study the codes of established governments and then selectively adapt these procedures to their own state. But the only place where that legal research could be done was at Harvard's 750,000 volume law library...
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. was born (in 1902) in his grandfather's house at Nahant, and grew up under his grandfather's watchful eye. His father, George Lodge, an unhappy man who bitterly lamented "my crying inability to adapt myself to my time and to become a moneymaker" and wrote passable poetry which no one read, died when the boy was only seven. His mother was, in Historian Henry Adams' description, "another survival of rare American stock: Davis of Plymouth, Frelinghuysen of New Jersey, Griswold of Connecticut, with the usual leash of Senators, Cabinet officers, and other...
...Subjective Factor. One of Pound's great fears is that belief in "the justice of the courts" is being undermined. Where 19th Century judges scorned to adapt their abstract reasoning to experience and social change, the "realists" of today, stimulated perhaps by hasty readings in Marx and Freud, challenge the worth of any standard except experience. ". . . [Some] assert [the law] is a camouflage of reason covering up ... individual personal prejudices or wishes . . . because human judges cannot keep purely subjective factors from influencing and indeed determining their action...