Word: adjuster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Modern Sunday school has attempted to adjust to modern students, whose minds have been honed on improved public schooling. "You can't sit them on a chair and pour it in any more," warns...
...motto of an old-fashioned Sunday-school teacher, recalls A. V. Washburn of the Southern Baptist Sunday School Board, was: "You sit still while I instill." The modern version might be: "In God we trust that you'll adjust." Sunday schools still struggle, with varying success, to form religious people in a doggedly secular world, but the setting and philosophy are changing fast...
...point in trying to mastermind" the assignment of freshman roommates too much, since the "very nature of this college and of these students means that the 318 girls in the Class of 1966 are already diversified." She added that Radcliffe girls are likely to be people who can adjust to a range of personalities, and who will therefore be able to get along with any roommate...
...example of Dudley House lunches and limit outsiders to a specific, manageable number each hour, a number necessarily different in each dining hall. Students would be required only to sign their names and addresses; the sponsor requirement would be abolished, and the individual dining halls would adjust their finances, as they do now, among themselves...
...Catherine, it seemed easier to assassinate Coligny than to reason with him. But just as the official murderer discharged his arquebus at Coligny, the Protestant leader bent to adjust a shoe. Admiral Coligny was merely wounded. Later one autumn afternoon, Catherine gathered her closest counselors in the Tuileries Gardens. With the Protestants aroused and Coligny still dangerous, she abruptly decided that the solution was a slaughter of the most important Protestant leaders...