Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...does not satisfy him. Then, by accident, he reads of the suicide of Annice's father. He comes back to her. They marry. And he manages to find some measure of content. This is a first novel. It is the story of the ex-soldier who cannot adjust himself and, as such, should be widely interesting. It is not well planned, however, and written with hardly enough distinction to command quite all the praise it has received...
...voluntary consolidations, both regional and route, and providing Government machinery to aid and stimulate such action, always subject to the approval of the Interstate Commerce Commission. . . . Consolidation appears to be the only feasible method for the maintenance of an adequate system of transportation with an opportunity so to adjust freight rates as to meet such temporary conditions as now prevail in some agricultural sections...
...Freshmen in singing several hymns and Harvard songs. H. H. Mae Cubbin '26, chairman of the Committee on Bible Study and Discussion Groups of the Phillips Brooks House Association, next introduced the speaker of the evening. Dean Willard Learoyd Sperry, of the Divinity School who talked on how to adjust oneself to the demands of College life...
...Christianity than the Catholic, an inspiration of moral and political reform, and a dependence on the religious witness of the inner man rather than the dogma of the church. Thus Protestantism is less hampered than Catholicism in dealing with advances in philosophy, science or gov- ernment-because individuals can adjust more quickly than institutions, and the Papal syllabus shows no inclination to adjust anyway. Clericalism in government, he says, "is more like a permanent conspiracy than a dominant power," whereas Protestantism has no interests apart from the highest welfare of the nation, and permeates rather than dominates its politics...
There are very few more touching spectacles than that of row after row of eager theatre-goers, patiently waiting for something to happen to their emotions. Some are defiant. They set their teeth, adjust their faces to a sneer of quiet superiority, fortify themselves against any attack. Others go with their tongues hanging out. If it is a farce, they control their risibilities with an effort until the curtain rises. If it is a tragedy, they will be provided against any lachrymal emergency with pocketfuls of anticipatory handkerchiefs...