Word: adaptions
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There is at least a chance that rats will outlive the human race. Most species of animals die out because they have over-specialized and cannot adapt themselves to a new condition. Human beings, for example, have specialized in brains. If humans are destroyed because of their own super-smartness, rats may eventually take their place as the earth's dominant species. They are more adaptable than any other animal, and are somewhat like the primitive, generalized mammals that inherited the earth at the close of the age of reptiles...
...TIME propose to adapt itself to the "busy man?" The 16 pages of the prospectus, more prolix than the magazine it described, boiled down to three basic ideas...
What he will find here though, is material potentially on a par with the teams he will face on next fall's "back-breaking" schedule. Best of all, Valpey will find a team which should adapt itself well to the Crisler system he has said he will employ. The single-wing is the basic Crisler formation (he uses/about 7, with a total of 170 or so plays). But Crisler doesn't use the single-wing exclusively for the power it was designed to produce. By lining up in a T, with an unbalanced line, and the quarterback up over center...
...programs are being sponsored by the Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council, which aims to adapt regular college course material for listening at home. Recordings of the show may be entered by the Institute in a national contest sponsored by Variety Magazine...
Other Elgin ministers were so impressed by Peirce's statement that they decided to adapt it for general distribution in pamphlet form. Promptly Elgin's undertakers proposed a meeting to talk it over. Such a meeting, explained a representative of the undertakers, "was in the interest of two 'fine professions,' both seeking to give the public what it wanted...