Word: adaptive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opposite to that of a cell is passed through it, then that cell dies. The cell's potential depends on its semipermeable film, on certain electrolytic concentrations, water, temperatures, oxidation. They all create the potential. It is the electrical charge on the cell which permits the cell to adapt itself to changes. Oxidation occurs only in the presence of the charge and in turn creates the charge. After his observations, Dr. Crile believes that he has come very close to an explanation of life itself...
...Perhaps the chief reason for the fluctuating conditions in the industry today is the fact that so many of the men who still dominate it, were with it in its promotional stages and do not adapt themselves or their productions to settled conditions. In time, however the motion picture business is sure to arrive at the stabilization already enjoyed by the radio...
Differences in customs, and even in language, are sufficient to mark the American Rhodes Scholar off as a foreigner at first. Yet he, and his colleagues from the Dominions, soon adapt themselves to the ways of Oxford, and, on the whole, fit well into the life of the University. Naturally the differences in native ability, temperament, and training make for differences in accomplishment. Some Rhodes Scholars have had a very successful. Oxford career, although their accomplishments would not look like much on paper. They have done well in their Schools, they have taken an active though unobtrusive part...
...necessary to declare for Protection, which her father fought so long. Florida has changed since the Commoner first invested in its real estate and conducted prayer meetings there. Northern business men and methods opened a new field for northern political ideas and attitudes. Ruth Bryan Owen had to adapt herself and did so grudgingly. Besides the new Tariff ideas in her party, she balked at Tammany and the "grape juice" tradition of her family was affronted by the Smith wetness. She refused to let the National Committee use her photograph...
...parlor and concert hall. Berlin is admittedly no musician. But Gershwin is. And both are nimble tumblejacks with chords. Cadman, people find, who have followed his 25 years of music from organ compositions to Indian songs and finally operas, is rigid in his style. They ask: Can he adapt himself to popular sound-pictures; will he debase himself to commercialism? Few of them know that he lives in Hollywood...