Word: adapts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...necessary, there are also many phases of politics that require men who have had a college training. But simply because a man has been to college, that does not mean that he is fitted to fulfill the requirements. He must have had a training that enables him to adapt himself to all kinds of circumstances and to all kinds of people. I have known men who have never seen the inside of a college building yet who are better educated than scores who have spent seven years at a university...
...practical details. Many heads of divisions, themselves not college men, have come to believe, partly through experience, that the college man cannot be counted upon to stick to his job, cannot be counted upon for accuracy with figures or other details, and above all that he is unwilling to adapt himself to minor details and routine work. Foreign Trade needs college men on the practical side. The practical details cannot be mastered from a book and it is hoped that the college men will realize that their college education is to be of benefit, not immediately upon graduation, but after...
...doubt but that the Emergency Committee will be swamped with applicants during these two days. It is necessary, however, first to realize the seriousness of this duty. We have been appealed to because the college man has the ability to adapt himself to a situation involving both intelligence and hard work. This is to be no picnic; the work will be dirty and exacting; the necessity of operating passenger trains on schedule will undoubtedly serve to make hours irregular. Those who find themselves in the service of the railroads on October 30 will discover that their duties will...
...aggregate of these individual conditions is probably not unhygienic, it is only very disagreeable. The theory being that man can always adapt himself to his surroundings. Nevertheless, it seems that a college dormitory should not be quite so close to the line...
...feature picture is "Fatty" Arbuckle in "The Travelling Salesman", a comedy done in the usual Arbuckle style, but lacking the customary amount of laugh-producing "pep." Perhaps the cause of this can be found in the fact that the picture, instead of being written for Mr. Arbuckle, was adapted from a stage play. In the case of a comedian whose humor is so peculiarly distinct in its character as is Mr. Arbuckle's, such a procedure has its difficulties, since the comedian must adapt himself to the play, rather than the play to himself. In spite of this, Mr. Arbuckle...