Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...balancing slashes for which the Chamber and Senate recently gave Premier Laval special powers (TIME, June 17). "I am not going to abuse them," he promised last week, "but I am going to use them! . . . France must, if she is to be strong and healthy, do two things: First, adjust her income to her expenditure; Second, count on herself first of all for assurance of her security...
Speaking to 1910 at the Class Dinner Tuesday evening, Walter Lippmann told his classmates that they were now ready for graduation. The ceremonies in June 1910 gave degrees to several hundred men who failed during the next quarter of a century to make use of their chance to re-adjust the world to its changing conditions. As the members of 1935 go forth today, one wonders whether another Lippmann will tell them the same thing...
...could have, at the time," countered he, "selected enough losses to offset any or all taxes that might have been due. But I felt I still had an income and ought to pay a substantial tax. So I sold Pittsburgh Coal largely to adjust the figure and reach an amount that would be in my mind a justifiable and fair...
...report drawn up on intramural sports under the College Plan flatly asserted "that the day of these enormous receipts is past, and athletic costs, like all other costs must be materially reduced. Athletics at Yale should adjust themselves to simpler and saner standards of living...
...been difficult to adjust yourself to America...