Word: adapts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...government of Brazil has a perfect right to buy munitions in this country," announced Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson last week. When Brazil's government promptly ordered ten used Curtiss-Wright planes, the U. S. War Department consented to provide, for $97.74, certain "brackets" needed to adapt the ten planes for use as bombers...
...There must be no deflection from the goal of self-government! The British Empire can only survive the fate of its predecessors, which crashed inevitably as the circumstances which created them passed away, if it can adapt itself to the new needs of an ever-changing world...
...ladies and ladylike gentlemen who read Vogue were disturbed to read in the May 24 issue of that famed semimonthly fashion chart the following appeal: "Constantly we have to face the problem presented by newspaper publishers, department stores and advertising art services who use or adapt Vogue cover designs, illustrations, decorations or other material and offer it to the public as their own without asking our permission. . . We are asking our readers to help us detect these flagrant violations of a fundamental and well-understood law. If you observe any Vogue cover design ... or other material reproduced in any magazine...
...grave condition of opera in Italy was the reason given recently by Composer Mascagni for endorsing sound films. He even suggested that his own next opera would be composed expressly for the cinema. Said he: "Composers must adapt themselves to the new conditions, as the talkies can be made a medium for educating the masses musically...