Word: adjust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perpendicular positions are still visible in the human makeup. Among the apes, gibbons run on two legs; gorillas and chimpanzees can take a few upright steps without using their arms as crutches. These apes, "living fossils" which have changed little in 12,000,000 years, have failed to adjust their centres of gravity to the upright posture...
...government is not applicable in charitable institutions or the halls of learning. Harvard is not required by law to accept its provisions, nor to provide for its employees other than as it sees fit. Old age pensions or job insurance--these are matters for the corporation to adjust when and how they please, regardless of the general law or the popular sentiment...
...these circumstances to appoint Lord Linlithgow the next Viceroy of India, so that he might expertly install and adjust the new Constitution to its 350,000,000 souls, seemed quite the most obvious and also quite the wisest decision taken last year by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin in what was otherwise his Year of Bumbles. But would the Indian people take either to the Constitution or to Linlithgow? When he arrived in Bombay there was not a single native newspaper which did not oppose the Constitution, and the earliest date by which Britons dared hope to put it into effect...
...franc maneuver last week was a fascinating story in itself (see p. 12). If there was a British story, the British sat on it. In France the Cabinet's charming financial fairy tale was to substitute for such unpleasant words as "inflation" or "devaluation" the pleasant word "adjustment" or in French "l'alignement des monnaies." That is to say, the French Cabinet claims that what is being done is to adjust the franc by reducing its value and aligning it firmly with the dollar and the pound. As in all good fairy tales there is in this...
Britain must now adjust numerous sore points with Germany. These undoubtedly will be attended to by "Van." What they are clearly appeared in London last week before the House of Commons adjourned until Oct. 29 with the ominous proviso that it may reconvene "on five days notice" in case of emergency-i. e., war. So grave do M. P.'s consider the European situation that they asked and received Cabinet assurances that the Prime Minister will not leave England. Young Anthony Eden, the luckless Foreign Secretary, had to announce last week that Britain has further capitulated to Italy...