Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question arises whether the condition can be corrected with new legislation. Is this the real crisis of the amendment, or is it merely an unavoidable halting point in the adjustment of the law to the situation? Does the illicit sale and wide-spread use of spirits prove that national prohibition is something which the people will not have, and that it will be necessary to repeal the amendment? There are many who think so, but in view of the way in which prohibition swept the country, with an almost unanimous ratification by the States, it should be evident that...
...tell them also that their view of their rights is exaggerated, and that they have not been wronged to the extent that they have imagined. Wrath has time to cool, common sense regains its sway, and if the outside is represented by a good lawyer the two together can adjust the dispute and save their clients time, strength and money...
...superfluous general on the hands of the War Department is causing Secretary Weeks an inestimable amount of trouble. The difficulty is one left by Mr. Newton D. Baker for his successor to adjust and so far no reasonable solution has been reached...
...Davison has begun a movement which bids fair to revolutionize the entire practice and plan of college vocal organizations. The public has been quick to recognize the value of his work, and it soon will be in order for other colleges to re adjust their ideas of what can be accomplished in the practice of music when the same serious study is given to it that is required in other sciences. James K. Bagley...
...School also tries to help its graduates adjust themselves to business surroundings. Many of the mistakes of the beginner in business may be prevented if he understands how to study his surroundings and the personality of his associates and how to conduct himself in business. Business men want college men to come to them with a better preparation along this line...