Word: adjusting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...summer, Magnavox research will result in a large list of new products. Among them: a television set with an electronic eye to adjust the picture tube's brightness and contrast automatically to the light level in the room; low-priced ship-to-shore radios, direction finders and fathometers for small boats; citizen band radios at $99 a pair; transistorized electronic organs for the home, priced from $700 to $1.500; a miniature telemetering system between doctor and patient that will broadcast the patient's electrocardiograph, brain wave or other biological signals whenever the doctor tunes...
Emphasizing that "the success of a residential House system requires one unit not completely residential," Leighton pictures Harvard's goal as "a House system flexible enough to allow students to move in or out without having to adjust to an entirely new environment. It is the University's responsibility to offer those fortunate enough to be able to enjoy the simultaneous benefits of home life and education, a part in a college community which is mainly residential...
...world. A science teacher in Nigeria or the Philippines does not swing a pick any more than a science teacher in the United States. He follows a classroom-plus-preparation routine just as any teacher. The physical hardships of a Peace Corps job lie in the realm of adjusting to a different climate and different physical surroundings. These adjustments depend on good health, not on good muscles. The spectacle of a Peace Corps "boot camp" in Puerto Rico supervised by an athletic director, of all people, is nothing short of ludicrous. Nor is the imposing list of athletic skills listed...
...shape of this bat. It comes in like a fast ball and breaks a few inches in toward the hands of the batter. That means it breaks in where there is no wood in the bat. Just the thin handle. It breaks so late you can't adjust your swing for it. Used to be all you had to worry about was the fast ball, the curve and the change-up. Add the slider and right there the batter's problem is 25% harder...
...guns on the real weak spot of the program--the Advanced Placement tests. Opinion is almost unanimous that these examinations, taken in the spring of senior year in high school, are ridiculously easy. While of course they cannot show a student's emotional preparedness or his ability to adjust to House life, these tests in many cases do not even measure academic competence effectively. Much of the scholastic difficulties that Sophomore Standing students encounter--and apparently these are what the Committee was largely concerned with--might disappear if the Advanced Placement tests were more adequate to their task...