Word: adaptiveness
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...divisional meetings, bankers gloomed little. Anathema two years ago, Federal deposit insurance was generally accepted. The low-status of commercial loans as earning assets was treated for the first time not as a horrifying abnormality but as a more or less permanent condition to which banks would have to adapt themselves. In a report for the A. B. A.'s economic policy commission, Cleveland Trust's financial seer, Colonel Leonard P. Ayres, described this change as the most important bankers have faced since the Civil War.* Said...
...society of which she is a part, is prepared, now as always, to furnish that Intellectual leadership which has invariably been her glory. As we survey the transitory present, we may rejoice that a new Harvard is being shaped on the old foundations--a Harvard ready as always, to adapt herself to the needs of her age, but still standing a stronghold for the traditions and guiding principles of the past a Harvard which will justify our hopes and expectations for a future worthy of the dreams of her founders and the nobles' efforts of her leaders in all generations
...Emil Novak, Johns Hopkins gynecologist: A college girl of 19, considered normal in childhood, had grown tall (6 ft. i in.), angular, flat-chested, hairy, deep-voiced. Examination revealed no womb, a rudimentary vagina, an overdeveloped clitoris, male gonads. Dr. Novak saw at once that it was impossible to adapt the clitoris for male activity. Moreover, the patient had a strong, deep-rooted feminine psychology to upset which he thought would be disastrous. Therefore he removed the testes and the clitoris, tried to restore female features by administrations of female hormone. This medication was partly successful...
...David Albert Lamson, 34, onetime Stanford University Press official, four times tried (1933-36) for murdering his first wife (TIME, April 13 et ante); and Ruth Smith Ranking, 33, cinemagazine writer; in Los Angeles. When California quashed its murder charge against him last April, he went to Hollywood to adapt his death-cell memoirs (We Who Are About...
...allies would mean that organized Labor was to remain split in a hundred quarreling groups, patterned on a vanished industrial structure and excluding from its ranks the great mass of workers in the nation's industries. Victory for Lewis & allies would open the way for organized Labor to adapt itself to the times, fulfill its enormous potentialities. Conceivably neither side would win, in which case Labor would probably destroy itself...