Word: adjust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unequal," and by nature "irrational"; consequently, democracy, to succeed, must adjust itself to unequal, irrational...
...called Anopheles gambiae, a native of Africa, had arrived on the American continent, there would have been no public alarm. . . . But Anopheles gambiae is potentially a much more dangerous invader than the Martians would have been. H. G. Wells's Martians, it will be remembered, were unable to adjust themselves to life on this planet and quickly died...
During the making of The Flying Irishman, its star failed utterly to adjust himself to the behavior expected of an international celebrity. At his first studio press conference, he offended his employers by explaining that his pay was $50,000, after the studio had announced it as $100,000. Corrigan drove to & from the studio in his 1928 Franklin, once delayed shooting for 30 minutes when it broke down en route. His lunches in the commissary rarely cost more than 25?. Corrigan got his first view of The Flying Irishman last fortnight, week before its national release on St. Patrick...
...difficult to analyze one whose role in life is such that she must constantly adjust herself to rapidly changing situations, but we are satisfied . . . that Brenda Frazier is no flower of this season alone but . . . will continue perennially green--a thing of beauty, and a joy forever. And when time at last has overtaken her footsteps she will bequeath to life a delicate, pleasant memory through the recorded incidents in the life of a mature and mellowed beauty...
Comedian Finck would suddenly interrupt his patter, shoot his arm up in a burlesque Nazi salute-and then adjust a picture. Deftly, but unmistakably, he would caricature the well-known posturing of top-rank Nazis. Sometimes when he walked off the stage he mimicked gimpy Dr. Joseph Goebbels. For these offenses he has often been in the Nazi doghouse, once in a concentration camp. Last week the Nazi bigwigs finally caught on, and Propaganda Minister Goebbels expelled Actor Finck, a fellow vaudeville actor and a comedy team, "The Three Rulands," from the Reich's Culture Chamber as "desecrators...