Word: adjusting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike the ordinary citizen, the Government could not adjust its budget by moving to a cheaper neighborhood or finding a better job. But there were some alternatives...
...Higher Loyalty. To Layman Smith, the trend is clear, present, and dangerous: in their anxiety to adjust the child to his environment, modern educators have actually forgotten the child for the environment. As the American Association of School Administrators put it in its own brand of pedagoguese, education should aim not at educating "the individual in his own right to become a valuable member of society," but at preparing him "for the realization of his best self in the higher loyalty of serving the basic ideals and aims of our society...
...book while there are only two or three copies of another that contains an equal amount of assigned reading. In some cases this is due to departments that won't purchase enough volumes, in others to professors who assign out-of-print editions. Lamont officials say they try, to adjust the number of copies of a book to student demand as much as possible...
Psychoanalysts and the friendly clergymen, says Author Kristol, tend to talk about human happiness instead of truth: they "blithely agree that religion and psychoanalysis have at heart the same intention: to help men 'adjust' ... to make them happy or virtuous or productive...
Taylor, who just recently became goalie, broke up a series of corner and indirect penalty kicks throughout the first half, enabling the Crimson offense to adjust itself...