Word: adjust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stood in the way of the efforts of the Federal Government to provide work for the unemployed, to protect home owners and farm owners from foreclosure, to guarantee the safety of bank deposits, to expand credit or restrict it, to protect the small investor on the Stock Exchange, to adjust the value and nature of the currency or to do any one of many other things in the interest of the little fellow...
...expenses are very small. . . . The barber shop below my office contains two church pews from an abandoned church [which are] comfortable. ... If the telephone rings upstairs, or a client walks up the stairway, I sit up, adjust my tie and commence work...
Many at Harvard think the root of the trouble lies in the University's system of advisers--faculty members who help Freshmen adjust themselves to college life. An adviser is supposed to steer his Freshman along the right track, whenever necessary sending them to a supervisor for general guidance. If such assistance does not help, Harvard's o cial view is that the student isn't college calibre, and he ought to get out--not go to a tutoring school, cram for a few days or hours, and squeeze through examinations by the aid of his pocketbook...
...requirements. Many a student, accustomed to the less intense atmosphere of the university, does not know whether he is working too hard or too little during the major part of the year. Were a system of regular examinations held during the year, if only to enable the student to adjust his home-work hours, much of the last minute preparation in June and the subsequent examination failure would be eliminated...
...photoelectric exposure meters used with minicameras are not automatic: they give a brightness reading from which the photographer must adjust his exposure time...