Word: adapts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...School men know that Dean Pound, 65, is one of the ranking U. S. authorities on jurisprudence, a tireless legal reformer who has long campaigned to simplify and de-emotionalize legal processes, adapt English common law to 20th Century U. S. conditions. His most famed dictum: "The law must be stable but cannot stand still...
Thus, one is again forced to the conclusion that the Republican Party is nothing but an uncritical headless opposition. With no principles to guide it, and no leader to enforce them, it has been unable to adapt itself as a critical anti-administration party. This function, intelligently performed, is as essential to the efficient operation of our two-party democracy as able leadership by the group in power. Unless it can show its usefulness, which entails a complete reorganization, the Republican Party is doomed to oblivion...
...course might be improved, he displayed an attitude which could well be more generally adopted. No one is better qualified to pass judgment on courses than those who take them, and if the response to similar requests is intelligent and constructive, professors should be able to adapt their method and presentation to the changing demands of the times...
...editors went to work on a plan to compile selections of old shots from film libraries, lead them up to spot newsreel views of the current week. Results were disappointing, largely because in many cases library clips were mere flashes of persons and events. Then the editors decided to adapt The March of Time radio technique of re-enacting such scenes as were needed. First experimental dummy reel was completed last August, showing such subjects as the birth of the Dionne quintuplets, the death of Hindenburg, U. S. midshipmen cheering the Pope. Three more dummies were made, tested on cinema...
Summarily, the advantages are two-fold. First, the candidate learns to adapt his thinking to a new medium of expression and second, he has an opportunity to discuss college problems with members of the Faculty and University officials...