Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...selective process. Most of those listed by him have been tried with a greater or less degree of success. One thing is certain--Mr. Angell endorses such a pruning of registration lists but while doing so he also realizes that there can be no wholesale method. Each institution must adjust its own mechanics and find its own means of curtailment; successful methods in a certain college by no means provides for similar success in another. Speaking of that with which he is best acquainted, Mr. Angell says that the selective system has proved "distinctly gratifying" at Yale...
...week received a letter from Senator William Edgar Borah, who had heard that the proposed new French borrowings in the U. S. would be 100 millions at 6%. Mr. Borah, chairman of the foreign relations committee of the U. S. Senate, recalled that the last U. S. offer to adjust the French debt was to accept fifty cents on the dollar and 1¼% interest. This offer France refused as oppressive, unjust. Said Mr. Borah: "The disparity between the two propositions seems worthy of consideration. Is the American taxpayer being swindled or is the French taxpayer being exploited...
Five guards took their posts in the death house, two to adjust electrodes, one at the blue lethal door, two to call at the cells. One newsgatherer, W. E. Playfair of the AssociatedPress, was included among the seven official witnesses of man killing...
...presented, is a tiny place, it is remarkable that the production actually came off. For it employs a cast of almost 70 persons, all racing about in the throes of excitement and confusion incidental to this iron age. The furor is the result of bungling man's efforts to adjust his life, political organization, education, to the whizzing circle of accelerating machine civilization. The satire seeks to prove 1) That man is too busy being stimulated by split-second meals, red-hot tabloids and undressed dramatics to enjoy the simple compensations of life; 2) that in trying to regulate...
This service is intended to help students to adjust themselves to the method of college study. The principle is not to lift the burden of work from their shoulders or to compete with the professional tutors and tutoring schools. On the other hand. It is desired that the necessity for the latter be done away with, and that the students learn to study properly...