Word: adaptive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...German rigidity. There was not a single example of a Prussian haircut,. . . two of them were even exaggerating the fashion of Parisian youngsters and wore their hair so long that they had to pin it back with a long buckle. Said one of them: 'You have to adapt yourself to the customs of your hosts, if only for politeness...