Word: adjustable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Greatest of All . . ." In Shorewood, a suburb of Milwaukee, strapping, 17-year-old George Kalman, once a Hungarian, rolled up a sleeve, displayed the blue, tattooed numbers of the concentration camp on his arm. His hardest problem in the U.S., he said, had been "to adjust myself to being a human being again, not just a number." Sent to the U.S. by United Service for New Americans, Inc., he spent a year in the Milwaukee Jewish Children's home, now lives with foster parents. At Shorewood High School, he plays football, boxes, is an orator of parts...
...academic and social structure in the College is largely the same. The stereotypes already present in an incoming Freshman class become hardened: the scholars become more scholarly; the playboys play more; those who adapt themselves easily join clubs, publications, and other sorts of groups, and those who do not adjust easily become increasingly isolated. "Individualism," it is called, and it is the outstanding characteristic of Harvard College...
...YEARS FROM Now a divided, stunned and defeated U.S. may be trying to adjust itself to a Communist-ruled world...
...socialist society of workers and farmers, one in which the centuries-long cycle of exploitation was to be brought to a close. But this was also a society in which his class and the ideology, of his class could play no part. Admiring its positive achievements but unable to adjust himself to its conditions, he chose suicide as a resolution of this conflict. This was certainly a more honorable solution than to flee to Washington and reaction in the manner of Mikolajczyk and Nagy...
...book, "Tables of the Bessel Functions of the First Kind of Orders Sixteen through Twenty-Seven," looks much like a mammoth logarithm table and was compiled by the College's Computation Laboratory. All the mathematicians had to do was correctly adjust their "Mark I" calculator and turn...