Word: adjustable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...natural to it. Anachronisms cannot be maintained even by universities, and the Yale, say, of 1850, when a paternal president gathered his little group of faculty and scholars about him under the New Haven elms and discoursed wisdom, is beyond recovery. What, of course, can be done is to adjust the best that was in the old to the conditions of the new. In this particular question it seems to rest primarily upon the teachers to maintain their independence and influence to the best of their ability. Dr. Henderson finds the teachers themselves "notoriously weak" in resisting industrialization; and indeed...
Even while learned Professor Einstein was formulating his statement, a learned U. S. attorney, Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne was in Brussels attempting to persuade the world's sugar-growers to adjust production to consumption (TIME, Dec. 15). Although he had previously succeeded in uniting Java growers with the Cubans, he failed to draw the European beet-sugar producers into the agreement. Just as the conference was drawing to a close, the powerful German delegation left Brussels, announced they could not conform to the schedule given them. Private negotiations will continue, for other nations have agreed to the restriction, contingent upon...
...horn, acousticon) resolved to make some contribution to safety and efficiency of aircraft. Last week Dr. Hutchison, onetime (1913-17) chief engineer and personal representative of Thomas Alva Edison, brought forth his offering: "Moto-Vita," a device which measures the unburned gases in engine exhaust, enables a pilot to adjust his carburetor accurately in flight for complete combustion of fuel and, consequently, elimination of waste. Capt. Frank Monroe Hawks tried the Moto-Vita on a flight to Memphis, informally reported a fuel saving between 30% and 40%. While Dr. Hutchison's motive was to help airmen, his invention...
...TIME makes an error in calculating its payroll, does it "pay up" at the end of 20 years? Or does it "adjust" it-at once...
...condition. ... I personally prefer to work up something much more simple." The "something simple," it transpired, might be a rocket on which Mr. Edison was already experimenting. He has devised a day-or-night rocket to explode at 4,000 ft. and hoped to adjust the explosion to give an incoming pilot an accurate idea of the airport location and the height of the fogbank. Another line of experimentation, he suggested, might be a sound-signal to the fog-barred pilot, "a distinctive sound . . . which would cut through the noise of the motor and reach the aviator...