Word: adjusting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Regardless of their college class, students matured by service life are able to adjust themselves to college life without being maneuvered about like puppets on a string. Their situation and that of 17-year-olds are not identical; one blanket ruling cannot always apply to both. The Faculty should reconsider their ruling. Beginning with the summer term, all veterans should be excused from required physical training...
Third step is to adjust the 1909-14 base period prices by the index of prices paid by the farmer. Thus the parity price for cotton in March was 1.79 times 12.4? , or 22.2? a pound; parity price for wheat was 1.79 times 88.4?, or $1.58 a bushel; for corn...
...with a counter-threat. Under the presidency of Foreign Minister Eugenio Silva Peña, independent planters had discussed a new marketing cooperative to export bananas independently of United Fruit. Once, that would have signaled war without question. Now there would probably be a compromise. Explained Sam Zemurray: "We adjust...
...experience, as a pharmacist's mate and ex-instructor of college history, to find that those people who were best able to adjust themselves to the difficulties of life in the service were not those who had a broad educational background, but rather, those who didn't know any better...
...Navy), Captain Mac gave a newsman a glimpse of the postwar course she plans to steer. She was full of what the WAVES had taught her. Said she: "I am more enthusiastic than ever about liberal education. I found that those people who were best able to adjust themselves to the difficulties of life in the service were those who had a broad educational background. This may not be true of men in combat. I don't know anything about that. But it was true of the people who were in dull, uninspiring work on unglamorous shore duty...