Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...realist, Walter Greenwood gives his poverty-stricken story a fresh angle, distinguishes it from the monotonous, incredible heroics of most proletarian fiction. Main reason the wretched people in Love on the Dole are believable is that they spend little time trying to adjust the work to themselves. Barely surviving, they have their lives full trying to adjust themselves to the world...
...reported in 1925 through a 1932 deficit of $2,084,000. That was in part the inspiration for President Cunningham's rejuvenation program, in part a result of the program itself, which was costly. And the program was hardly launched before Butler had to adjust itself to a Depression sales drop from $63,000,000 yearly to a low of $46,000,000. In his 1930 report President Cunningham dolefully observed : "Everything conspired to make it the most trying and unsatisfactory year in our experience...
Though the wheezy little instrument was often inaudible, Mme Zalipsky pumped & played vigorously for nearly three hours, pausing only to adjust her glasses or steady her hat. Stagehands had left with the musicians so members of the cast were obliged to manipulate the curtains. Electricians went also, so there was no attempt at lighting. But hit-or-miss the performance, with Edouard Albion as Nilakantha. the fanatic Brahman priest, went on to the end which came...
Since human beings are creatures of infinite adaptability, they make themselves comfortable and thrive in torrid and frigid zones, on mountains and in prairies. Skillfully they adjust themselves to the slowness of farm life, to the speed of great cities. But medical authorities say that men do not adapt themselves to ceaseless din. In New York City recently an insistent band of noise-haters has tried to get the clamors of their metropolis abated. Last week loud Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia headed those noise-haters and ordered his policemen to compel a measure of silence in Manhattan. Policemen gave particular...
...guiding purpose of the Club is to foster understanding of all things German through fuller knowledge of the language, literature, culture, and oustoms, with the hope of being a worthy adjust of the more formal course studies and a means of calling up reminiscences to those who have traveled in Germany and of sharpening anticipation in those who have...