Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...class which is restricting itself while the less intelligent classes go on increasing. This is the serious problem. A common sense solution is to make the facts of birth control as easily accessible to the less fortunate as to the more fortunate members of society. The problem will then adjust itself. Most large families, it is safe to say, are monuments, not to a colossal desire to perpetuate the race, but to a colossal ignorance of eugenics. Dr. Eliot's argument is only cogent if the knowledge of these matters is still to be suppressed by governments whose primary concern...
...noting that he was watchful of every action, of every word that might be reported directly or indirectly in print or in unprinted gossip. He was oppressed by the fact that he was in a delicate position. Literally overnight, he had been thrust into the presidency. He had to adjust himself, and he knew that he had barely 15 months, in which to show whether he was a misfit, or a fixture...
...past two weeks, Germans throughout the length and breadth of Germany have taken an absorbing interest in their newspapers. Supercilious Frauen would adjust their thick pince-nez, glance at the headlines, shudder, read something else, return to the headlines, shudder again, put down the paper, go away, come back, look at the headline once more and again shudder, then plunge into the story...
Freshmen may wonder that they were not granted the same consideration as upperclassmen, since they, more than any others, find it difficult to adjust themselves to the requirements of their college studies. But their case is different. So great is the change from secondary school to college that many Freshmen are left hopelessly adrift and need to have their difficulties brought early to the notice of the authorities and themselves...
...threatened fall of the British Labor ministry has been postponed for a few days or a few months by the successful hurdling of the Irish bill to provide a commission to adjust the boundary between Ulster and the Free State. The Conservatives hoped to force the resignation of Premier MacDonald's government, and the overwhelming acceptance of this bill shows that the Irish question has at last been removed at least from the vicissitudes of partisan politics. Parliament has found a unified course, a fixed attitude which England will hold vis-a-vis with her new dominion...