Word: adjusters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Politically America is undergoing a self-couscious analysis to determine and re-evaluate the ideals of democracy and to adjust the existing governmental structures to them. President Butler, of Columbia, in a speech at the University of California, has presented his views of the problems of democracy and indicated the direction of possible reform...
Some of the oak bell-beams seemed to interfere with the right resonance. Some of the tintinnabulations clashed. Beams and bells were shifted. Yankee electricians hopped about trying to adjust a 20th Century U. S. ringing mechanism to Russian antiques. It was exciting! When you are 74 years old. when you have just denied that you are going to resign (as President Lowell did deny last week), you, too. may feel like ringing bells...
Running on boards is different from running out of doors. Learning how to adjust his stride to the greater spring the track gives on indoor boards does npt completely solve the problem of the runner. He must master the banked turns. No matter how long or limber are his legs on the straightaway, unless he acquires a correct balance around turns, leaning neither too much nor too little, unless he shortens his stride with the inside leg, the runner should stay out in the open. Dr. Paul Martin of Switzerland", bone specialist, U. S. 1,000-yd. champion...
...York-Boston schedule of American Airways' Colonial Division. Last week the schedule was speeded up to six planes each way, one every two hours. Explained President Frederic Gallup Coburn: "It has been the necessary practice of airlines in the past to offer infrequent schedules, which meant passengers must adjust themselves to the service. . . . We are reversing that order." But another incentive for the doubled pressure might have been the report that Ludington line, which operates a plane-per-hour service between New York and Washington, was thinking of flying between Boston and New York...
...rare cases is imprisonment alone a complete deterrent to crime. Little is to be gained by freeing a man who has nothing but a feeling of bitterness against society and the state. Under the present regime it is debatable whether the released prisoner is any more competent to adjust himself correctly to the demands of organized society than before his incarceration. The educative plan of Mr. MacCormick has been urged with the end in view of remedying this primary evil of maladjustment, and to inculcate a fuller sense of social responsibility...