Word: adjust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When the system was put into operation last autumn many faculty members looked forward to ''a devil of a mess." Last fortnight President Hutchins made a speech to the first freshman class that has worked under the new plan. Said he: "You have made a very creditable adjustment to the new situation. You have faced a new system. . . .Believe me when I say it has been worth it. ... It would have been folly for us to allow a year to pass without giving you or the faculty some check on your progress. . . . Every member of the college faculty...
...carbonizes more quickly, clogs stove burners, dirties pots and pans" endorses erroneous impression. Correctly burned, natural gas produces no more dirt than manufactured gas. The fallacy arises from the frequent misuse, for natural gas, of stoves designed for the lighter, quicker burning, manufactured gas Complaints also arise when stoves adjusted for natural gas are used for manufactured gas. The change in adjustment is easily made a gas companies which change over from man factured to natural gas usually send their 01 mechanics to adjust all of a consumer's equipment on the day of the change...
Followed an explanation of urinary surgery, by Dr. Arthur Henry Bitrgess of Manchester, England. An important point: catheterization for urinary retention is a dangerous procedure The retention causes a back pressure against the kidneys, which adjust themselves to the abnormal condition. Perspiration removes sufficient water from the body to maintain a satisfactory state of invalidism. Catheterization suddenly relieves the kidneys of back pressure, causes kidney injuries and, usually, a fatal kidney bleeding. In aged persons is this fact especially...
...voice to a shout as he voiced a platitudinous slogan, be loved of all civic clubbers, and from over the room came a shower of cards bearing the same admonition: "KEEP SMILING." Keep smiling the delegates did through ever-accumulating evidence that even the service club industry must needs adjust itself to a reduced income. A speaker neatly manipulated chalk and eraser to convert DEPRESSION into PRESS ON; from others came vague assurances that business is upping, but in its final meeting the convention adopted a significant report recommending drastic economies in club operation, euphemistically referring to "this period...
...when bears were attacked. A raid is definitely aimed to depress a stock through sheer force or by knowledge of stock that will come on the market if the price can be shoved down a little. A legitimate short sells on values, feels that time and earnings reports will adjust the price downward. The difference is the same as between an operator and an investor...