Word: adaptive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Colleges are steadily changing, though; at one time it was thought that Latin and Greek were absolutely essential. Now that stage has been outgrown, it is similarly qnite possible that in time the present college ideas on college education will change and adapt themselves to the money-making psychology which has such a grip on this country...
...favorite occupations, however, are fishing and hunting in both of which he is adapt. Although Mikkola likes America immensely, in this respect he maintains that it is vastly inferior to Finland. But he is willing to forego the pleasures of fishing and hunting for the other advantages which this country offers and intends to remain here in the future...
Speaking at a banquet last week, Edward of Wales urged upon steady-going Britons the slogan: "Adopt! Adapt! Improve...
...feel that it is most suited to my personality," Mis Natacha Rambova, former wife of Rudolph Valentino and now the star of the mystery play "The Triple Cross" at the New Park Theatre, told a Crimson reporter yesterday before the matinee. "In the field of art one must adapt his or her environment to the personal element. I have experimented with artistic designing, dancing, the cinema, and the stage in order to see which would be the best medium for expressing my individuality. It is an interesting quest but has no definite destination. At last, however, I can safely...
...Verlaine of absinthe and pomegranites should make a pilgrimage to the Holy City cannot seem entirely unrelated to the somewhat sordid suicide of four promising American undergraduates within the space of a few weeks. The only explanation that is sufficiently vague to be true is that of failure to adapt oneself to an inevitable, remorseless environment, an environment of natural hardship and of social horror. The biologist would claim it to be the elimination of the unfit in the struggle for existence, and as such a natural and beneficial part of the law of life. The theologian must interpret...