Word: adjustable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There will always be earthquakes, just as it will always be necessary to adjust flywheels. The spinning of the earth is not unlike a flywheel's motion. Factors are constantly at work calling for readjustment. Pressure on different parts of the earth's crust varies. Even the moon may have some effect. I look upon the quake recorded yesterday as the first of a series...
...each phonograph record, though the team was averaging $5,000 a week with their famed lines about the early bird, about olives, about "very close" veins, about Adam & Eve. A Los Angeles court ruled that Mack, as originator and owner of the team, had complete right to adjust Moran's salary and to use the team name in billboards. Moran & Mack have had a regular radio job only once-20 weeks on the Majestic Hour program in 1928 at $2,500 per week. Amos 'n Andy put radio work before all other calls on their services...
...talking films except Warner Bros, have been barred out of Germany. The reason: many German inventors and the producing companies backing them contest U. S. priority in patent rights on sound reproduction devices. Patent suits involving these devices are now pending in German and U. S. courts; to adjust the suits and settle differences has become necessary because both sides lose money fighting each other. Accordingly last week in Paris gathered delegates to an historic cinema conference. Present were representatives of the great U. S. and German concerns interested in talkie patents-John Edward Otterson of Electrical Research Products...
...grade of his intellectual equals, he is the baby of his class, kept out of games and parties, criticized by his teacher for manual and emotional immaturity. Gifted girls have the special problem of wanting and being able to do many of the things custom forbids them. They must adjust themselves "to a sense of sex-inferiority, without losing self-respect and self-determination, on the one hand, and without becoming morbidly aggressive on the other...
...product, not of hostile feelings between Princeton and Harvard men, but of divergent Harvard and Princeton athletic policies. Harvard desires that all her athletic relations be based on dual contracts, while Princeton has in the past stood for a triangular contract between Yale, Princeton, and Harvard. Failure to adjust these two policies has kept the universities apart...