Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large College, which influences the thought of a country, maintains its vigor through maintaining a flexible structure which can be adapted to change. A portion of Harvard's structure is the theory of concentration and distribution which may now adjust itself to the demands of the present and the future...
Next night young Democrats and the nation heard John's father read a "non- political" speech over the radio from Washington. "Facts are relentless," throbbed the warm, familiar voice of the President. "We must adjust our ideas to the facts of today. ... To the American youth of all parties I submit a message of confidence-unite and challenge. Rules are not necessarily sacred-principles are. The methods of the old order are not, as some would have you believe, above the challenge of youth...
...protest against the local organization." Said Senator Walsh of Massachusetts: "The only explanation that occurs to me is that certain economic policies . . . had created a sentiment against the Administration, but I did not think it had reached such proportions. I feel sure the Administration will be able to adjust its policies...
...years what she affectionately called a "potato" grew in the neck of Mme Amelita Galli-Curci, forcing her to adjust her coloratura soprano to 50% less wind volume. Last week in Chicago, while the onetime prima donna trilled tones and scales to show the effects on her voice, surgeons working with a local anesthetic successfully cut away a 6½-oz. goitre...
...convention the insurgents got their resolution on the floor. The Assembly passed it, thus establishing this policy: "The National Education Association believes that administrators and schools should have full opportunity to present differing points of view on all controversial questions in order to aid students to adjust themselves to their environment, and to changing social conditions...