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...What I find alarming in the present state of affairs is the failure of the British economic machine to, adapt itself to the new circumstances of the postwar world . . . The salient fact is that those efforts [we have made] have not been enough . . . Our system is stiff and rigid and unadaptable. We all know what happened to the brontosaurus because he could not adapt himself to new circumstances, and the fear that I have about the British economy is that it is getting a little into the state of the brontosaurus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Osmosis in Queuetopia | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

...fears that other mosquito species, including those that carry malaria and yellow fever, may adapt themselves too, as house flies in some places already have. But the department is not discouraged. Other powerful insecticides (e.g., the gamma isomer of benzene hexachloride) can probably take over the job of defeated DDT - at least for a while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: DDT Down, 2,4-D Up | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

There are those who say that Valpey ought to adapt his system to fit his players, the way "good old Dick Harlow used to do." But Harlow never changed his basic patterns in his system; he only adjusted the razzle-dazzle from year to year to fool the opposition and fit his players...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, Donald Carswell, and Bayard Hooper, S | Title: Harvard Football: Which Way Out? | 11/25/1949 | See Source »

...annual report of the Yale Medical School, Long stated that medical education will have to adapt itself to a growing public belief that adequate medical care be provided for the people regardless of economic circumstances...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Better Doctors' Education Proposed by Yale Med Dean | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

Captain Edward Molyneux, Paris fashion expert, announced without any reticence that he would use his visit to buy clothes fashioned in this country. He planned to pick up a few functional resort and play fashions and take them back to his Paris salon to adapt them for the continental trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 14, 1949 | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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