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Word: adapts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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However, rebuilding by the Supply Corps of the interior of Cary Cage has recently been completed to adapt the building for an assembly and lecture hall. The Cage, completely transformed, has newly redecorated walls, a wooden floor over what formerly was hard-dirt, and a speaker's platform and restrum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Supply Corps Decides On Building Mess Hall | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

...soon as possible, or plunge into Japanese or Russian. Courses of special use in the war will be recommended to men in economics or physics, while those in the enlisted reserve will be urged to acquire the rudiments of an exact science. Most Yale men, like students everywhere, will adapt their schedules...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big Men on Campus Martius | 7/15/1942 | See Source »

...kick an Englishman in the stomach today, in the teeth tomorrow and on his behind the day after, he will be unable to stand it. His command cannot adapt itself to such measures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Into the Funnel | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

...kick an Englishman in the stomach today, in the teeth tomorrow and on his behind the day after, he will be unable to stand it. His command cannot adapt itself to such measures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Rommel Africanus | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

Author de Sales does not believe that capitalism will disappear in this conflict. "It is my belief that the vitality of capitalism is underestimated not only in America but in Europe, and that it can still undergo many transformations and adapt itself to many changes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Dimensions of the War. | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

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