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...demands on the new Finnish Minister to Moscow, Juho Paasikivi. Chief demands: 1) immediate construction of the promised railroad across Finland to Sweden; 2) an economic agreement at once. If either the Allies or Germany invaded Sweden, it was almost certain that Russia would further "adjust her frontiers" with Finland, push up to Sweden's elbow...
...axiom was]: 'Find it, adjust it AND LEAVE IT ALONE. . . .' He did not believe human intelligence could hasten or improve upon the miraculous work of the Universal mind. ... I give you this paragraph from the Old Master's great Bible of Chiropractic: " 'The real primary cause of disease is tension; the cause of tension is pressure; the cause of pressure in 95% of diseased conditions is luxated [dislocated] vertebrae. The cause of the remaining 5% is the luxation of other bones than those of the vertebral column...
Keezer settled down in the Square when he was twenty and has never left it. When you talk about the Square with him, you have to adjust your geography to the changes of the last fifty years. The river came right up to what is now Winthrop House, and in its place were rows of docks and the barges of the Baker Coal Company. Horse car and tracks went as far as the Harvard Trust building and turned round a stile on its present site. A stable occupied the Georgian's land on Dunster Street. Max Keezer played a pretty...
...University received us with the greatest kindness and interest, yet, it was apparent, not without a certain apprehension," says Hopkins. "The Nieman Fellowships were a new departure in academic procedure and no one knew how newspapermen would adjust themselves to life at Harvard, nor how wide might be the gap between the points of view of journalist and scholar...
...younger, less stodgy Manhattan museums, notably the Museum of Modern Art in its shiny new blue glass home (TIME, May 22). There, instead of at the Metropolitan, will open next week the show of Renaissance masterpieces which Italy sent last year to the San Francisco Fair. Another poser: to adjust shrinking income from endowments to heavy fixed charges that brought a cumulative deficit of $11,000 in the past two years...