Word: adjust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tonight, or, strictly speaking, in the wee hours of the morning, the siren on top of Widener will let loose with its unearthly moan, street lights all over Cambridge will go out, and Harvard's fourth test blackout will be under way. Defense plants will adjust their blackout shades, all night bean-cries will be darkened, and those solitary night-owls who are still up and about will have to snuff out their midnight...
...beer & skittles for Fairchild. Products of its nuts & bolts empire must be trucked to its assembly lines. And truck tires are scarce. Artisans trained to work in leisurely style with meticulous care will not adjust themselves to wartime manufacturing tempo. Fairchild argues (in vain) for more wood-butchering, for less craftsmanship...
...order to adjust the hours of the conditioning exercises to the new meal times, the late afternoon classes will begin at 4:15 and 5:15 o'clock, instead of 4:30 and 5:30 o'clock, William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, announced yesterday...
...relaxed, looked up from the mass of unanswered registration questions and allowed his eyes to adjust for more distant vision. He gazed again at the stained glass windows of the Gothic Barn, and then lowered his eyes to the endless sea of registrants around him. Vag had never registered in Summer School before, and the adult multitude dotted here and there with gray-haired ladies seemed rather odd to him. Schoolteachers, he told himself. Uncounted multitudes of more schoolteachers as far as the eye could reach, with vistas of more schoolteachers beyond, to the very confines of Memorial Hall. There...
...girls has just spent a week on the "graveyard shift." She has stood it very well and was able to adjust her sleeping habits quickly. In fact, she found it rather novel and exciting to work at night. . . . HELEN I. BEACH...