Word: adaptions
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...only an entity in the multitude of America, whose masses enjoy secondary education in greater proportion than in any other country on the globe, the college man shrinks to numerical insignificance. The college curriculum is an Aeneas riding on the shoulders of the high school curriculum, which must adapt itself to college entrance demands, and so loses power in serving the quantitatively greater need...
...Water, fire, and oil used to be our terrors, now they have become our servants. Even the thunderstorm is being used." Miss Royden then said that man has become a conquering spirit. He will not adapt himself to the world but will govern it. "A change has come, not into the universe or humanity; what has altered is the contact which is being established between the genius of man and the universe...
...next meeting was scheduled for late in September. Baldwin Locomotive "Works seemed a good investment to the Fisher Brothers. It is the largest locomotive works in the U. S. It owns high priced real estate in Philadelphia, which it is vacating for cheaper land at Eddystone, Pa. It can adapt its factories to the manufacture of Diesel and other marine engines, as has its competitor, American Car & Foundry Co., now a great maker of motor boats. With the Fisher brothers on the close terms they are with General Motors, observers fancied the Baldwin Works as a possible further adjunct...
...sense all the persons of the story are symbols of certain ideas in the muddle that preceded the War. Peeperkorn personifies the strength, the glitter of royalty. What gives the metaphor power is the juxtaposition of death. Author Mann shows how men can adapt themselves to an environment of mortality by forgetting its existence. So countries squabble and chatter in the presence of catastrophe; so men, in the shadow of an enormous horror, pursue their silly and incongruous intrigues...
...constituting a "family", each with her own room, but all having the same study parlor. The nature of the girls determines whether or not the room is really for study. Perhaps this system is conductive to eliques, but it afferds a good chance to learn human nature, and to adapt one's self to circumstances. Then their is the chapter life, neither very social nor very interesting, the spreads, much fun but discouraged by the faculty and class and club life, whose interest varies with different classes...