Word: adjust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conference of universities which opened yesterday intends, according to Elmer E. Brown, Chancellor of New York University, "to see how we can adjust our higher education to our social needs." Disregarding present economic conditions, the educators will study as topics the University in relation to economic and governmental changes; and the university's relations to new spiritual values. They will seek a definite program of education by which college graduates may exert constructive influence on society. The "great influx if students" in all colleges during the postwar decade, is Brown feels, the great opportunity fir university ideals...
...fact the additional pressure upon the House libraries that may occur should serve as a healthful stimulant in the perfection of these comparatively recent institutions. Graduate students, commuters, and Faculty members constitute the largest groups drastically affected, and yet even here it should be possible for the bibliophiles to adjust themselves to the established library hours. It will, of course, be possible to borrow books overnight when the doors close at 6 o'clock...
...travelers are made drowsy, are often annoyed by the monotonous chant, as by the clickety-clack of train wheels. Airmen know that "beats" occur because the propellers are not perfectly synchronized; that vibrations are harmful to the engines. Unless a pilot has an exceptionally good ear, he can rarely adjust his engines to perfect unison. (A difference of 10 r.p.m. will cause "beats...
...therefore he is not imposed upon under the present arrangement. But in all its expenses except salaries Harvard is experiencing a decided reduction. Faculty salaries should naturally be the last items to suffer, but the general scale of living has gradually been lowered and as soon as Harvard can adjust its budget to the new conditions the benefits derived from the reduced expenses should be turned to the advantage of the student. A lowering of room rents now seems imminent; it will not be long before a decrease in food prices and other costs will be justified...
Passed without roll call the Glass-Steagall bill to broaden the Federal Reserve's rediscount base, free gold and increase currency; returned it to a conference with the House to adjust two Senate amendments: 1) an effective time limit of two years instead of one; 2) a limit of $2,000,000 capital for individual borrowing banks instead of $500,000. ¶ Defeated (48-to-35) the Costigan-La Follette $355,000,000 direct unemployment relief bill...