Word: adaptions
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Berliners, scanning Eudoxia's autobiography, became convinced that she conscientiously wrote it herself. What "feature writer" would have set down bluntly: "Bulgarian women are naturally inclined to adapt themselves to the reasoning of men. Consequently we consider uncalled for such an innovation as women's suffrage...
...said, "This is one of the evils often produced by industrialism. A possible remedy is emigration but the difficulty there is that the surplus workers do not as a rule settle on the land. They have received a highly specialized training and they are both unable and unwilling to adapt themselves to new conditions...
...have just finished reading Mr. Nichol's review of the "movie"version of "Brown of Harvard", which I helped adapt for the screen and I make haste to apologize to all Harvard undergraduates for the fact that, according to Mr. Nichols, the photoplay is not in the least like Harvard as it really...
...Reform Bills of 1832 and 1867, and the plebiscites of Napoleon III, it serves as a reminder that Japan still copies. She now has most of Europe's political features, a constitution, militarism, world-wide diplomacy, and universal suffrage. She has amply proved her descriptive trilogy, "adept, adopt, adapt...
...School last September were quickly made aware of the fact, and for several months we termed ourselves "Williams in China." Verily if we had gone to Joochow for a postgraduate course we should have found the methods of study no less unfamiliar than those to which we had to adapt ourselves here...