Word: adjust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than adequate system of indices, including both the ordinary type of index and a cut-back page effect; the result is that anyone can locate the best drink of a given base in a minimum of time, and with a minimum of thought. One can, by employing the manual, adjust the drinks to what there is on hand in the way of liquors and mixers with uncanny accuracy; the forthcoming drinks, experiment shows, are more potable than the average shot-in-the-dark concoction...
...American dollars abroad in large quantity and the fact that America is still exporting more goods than it is importing makes it difficult to determine an accurate valuation at this times. But even if it takes a year or so, the chances are that business and finance will slowly adjust itself to a 60-cent dollar and will make plans on that basis so that some day we may be in the position of ratifying the decision just made as having been in accordance with world factors
...faculty that cannot realize this double ideal, and it will be shaped on an acceptance of the prior claims of research. For the growth of the tutorial system the question is a central one; if a class of able tutors is to be recruited and encouraged, the University must adjust its promotion criteria to give the mere teacher a place in the sun of academic life. It is true that Mr. Conant only expresses as a standard what Harvard has long been pursuing as a policy, but that expression is itself important, coming at a time when tutorial expansion...
Said Mr. Fox: "I told him . . . that I had made this commitment of all these millions of dollars and that I was in a terrible place and wouldn't he please adjust the matter for me." Whereupon Mr. Hoover referred Mr. Fox back to the Attorney General...
...wages he must pay and the terms on which he must hire help (as are U. S. industrialists whether or not they have signed NRA codes). Strikes and lockouts are against Italian law, punished by heavy jail sentences on the theory that syndicates, like gentlemen, can and should adjust their differences without strife...