Word: adjust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good inspector of small parts. Most eyes have an aptitude for some special type of vision -distant or near, wide or narrow angled; or for the judgment of space, shape or motion; or for rapid change of focus. Industry stands to profit by selecting eyes for special jobs, adjust jobs to the eyes available...
...years as rector of Manhattan's famed Little Church Around the Corner, Dr. J. (for Jackson) H. (for Harvelle) Randolph Ray deplores hasty wartime weddings. He thinks they are usually the result of "glamor and excitement rather than genuine affection," do not give the couple a chance to adjust to each other, are especially unfortunate if immediate offspring result. But Rector Ray knows that warriors and their girls will continue to get married no matter what he thinks, so offers the following seven rules for war brides...
...Czechs thought they knew. To survive is an obsession with them; it is also their greatest talent. One of the smaller of Europe's peoples, they never had notions of grandeur, always realized that their role is to react rather than to act: to adjust themselves to conditions not of their making-and to survive. Unlike their next-door Slav neighbors, the Poles, the Czechs never believed in having more than one superior enemy at a time, never dreamed of going down in a romantic blaze of glory. Their national history is one long, continued search for allies...
...officers got morning and afternoon classes. Fang and Hong made Chinese noises in front of the classes ; Hockett told the officers how to adjust their vocal equipment to reproduce the noises, ex plained meanings, corrected errors...
During the quarter of a century before the war a flexible set of requirements had been developed in Harvard College in such a way as to adjust instruction to the needs of the individual, allow sufficient time for independent study in tutorial work and strike a proper balance between regular course work and tutorial instruction. These arrangements have naturally been affected by the changes due to wartime acceleration. The tutorial system especially, which was predicated upon four academic years of college residence or a total of eight terms so as to permit a large measure of independent study, was bound...