Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attitude of the past administration towards Mexico was an answer to this question in the affirmative, and the present one is likely to follow suit. But people impatient of the delay in recognition must realize the cause. Can Mexico adjust herself to modern conditions? Russia, throwing off her autocratic tradition, is at present in a chaotic state; but Russia's salvation lies in the fundamentally sound unit, the zemstvi, and she can build from the ground up. Mexico has not even this for a foundration. At any rate, recognition by the United States will give the Obregon government much needed...
...problem this week is to adjust the rowing to the river and is of utmost importance especially for the Freshman crews which have not had any previous experience. It is also of importance as regards the choice of the first and second University crews, since the coaches will base a large part of their decisions on the ability shown by the various men in this first stage of the work on the river...
Another of the perennial attempts to adjust the workings of the celestial universe to the convenience of civilized man is now before Congress in the shape of a bill to introduce a new calendar for the United States, the change to be made in 1928. This movement has the backing of the Liberty Calendar Association of America, with a list of dignitaries as long as its name. So far as we know, no one has ever objected to the length of the day, and curiously enough no reformers have ever proposed a substitute for the seven-day week; but schemes...
...took a moment for our eyes to adjust themselves in the dim light. Then all at once we discovered, in a standing posture, leaning against the wall, a human skeleton. His hands were upraised grasping a rope of twisted bark. Far above, in the shadows, we could make out the metal of a huge bell. The clapper, which had fallen to the floor, was worn with long usage...
What more natural, then, that we should adjust out school system, particularly the primary, so that education for the best possible enjoyment of leisure may replace present-day education for economic efficiency--alike for the laborer and Mr. Seaver's "young barbarians" in the colleges? After all, it is the educated people who, by the large, are the happiest; that background social, philosophical, aesthetic that detached point of view which education gives, somehow helps to preserve one's equanimity amid the vicissitudes of existence. Such being the case, Mr. Seaver can not, with decency, dub "Pharisee" and "hypocrite" those...