Word: adjustable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philippines ten years after the adoption of a new Island constitution; sent it to the House for concurrence. ¶ Passed a House bill to merge Washington's two street car systems. ¶ Passed a bill by South Dakota's Norbeck authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to adjust or compromise the repayment of seed loans...
...language a motion to default?though it was so in effect?this measure declared that "The Chamber invites the Government to summon, in accord with Great Britain and other debtors, a general conference ... to adjust all international obligations...
Upperclassmen who are not residing in the Houses have found it difficult to adjust themselves to the inter-House athletic program. This group is represented in the various sports. Aptly named the "Ramblers" because of no definite House allegiance, the very question that at once arises is, should they be represented in the House leagues? The Houses which would exclude them point out that they are a different unit, and would disrupt the homogeneity of the House leagues. On the other hand, they are classmates of the men living in the Houses. Their numbers are not large enough to form...
Under ordinary conditions, the House Libraries have been able to cope with the added numbers, and student have been able to adjust their programs to the new schedule. But close observers feel that House Libraries will have enough neither of the required books nor of seating accommodations to meet the reading period influx. Moreover at a time when it is obviously essential for many students to use the limited number of prescribed books, they regard it as a questionable policy to allow individuals to hold them for a period of fifteen hours...
...superstructure, the only visible part being a skylight over a small workshop next to the vault, in which instruments not susceptible to shocks will be placed. The cell in which the seismographs will be installed will never be entered except to change the recording materials and adjust the machinery. Six seismographs will be used, two to record vertical movements of the earth, and four to record horizontal movements. Two of the later are already made, and are in use in the present seismographic station in the basement of the Geological Museum on Oxford Street. That station will be used...