Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moore School of Electrical Engineering in Philadelphia. There they found a new differential analyzer even more formidable than its name-a maze of delicate mechanisms united in a 28-ft. monster weighing three tons (see cut). They saw innumerable gears mesh silently, shafting turn on jeweled bearings, operators carefully adjust hand controls; they heard five small motors tranquilly purr. On the "answer table" they saw a metal arm bearing a stylus make a curved graph on white paper...
...underlying mortgages. When it cannot do that it generally honors its equipment trust issues so that it will not lose its rolling stock.* So deep in receivership is Seaboard Air Line (mileage: 4,309) that last week it submitted to the courts a reorganization plan not only to adjust the interest on underlying bonds, not only to refund equipment trust maturities, but even to refinance receivers' certificates, which take precedence over every other outstanding security...
...crowned a rich musical life by dedicating himself to God. Critic Newman thinks differently, takes sides with Countess Marie d'Agoult who sacrificed a proud position, bore Liszt three children and saw him truly as a superficial showman so dependent on adulation that he could never adjust himself to solitude and concentrated work. Liszt kept his shallow ways even after he turned to the Church. He repented periodically but he reverted always to the spotlight, to flatterers who kissed his hand, cherished his cigar butts, begged for locks of his hair. Critic Newman does not deny that Liszt...
...with the Mexican Government should Mr. Daniels be pushed upstairs--if need be to a seat in the Cabinet or some executive position under the Administration. A cordial, restrained, and tactful man of the type of Dwight Morrow is needed down in Mexico City, an ambassador who can readily adjust himself to the Latin game of international relations and yet retain a warmth of sympathy and understanding of their vexatious problems...
Regardless of the essential merit of the Association's proposal, the plan should be condemned at once on the basis of national expediency. In a critical period when labor and capital are attempting to adjust their relations to the exigencies of a new economic condition, every possible stimulus should be given to cooperative activity. In the current situation, it is the province of the government to act as an intermediary between the two opposing forces and to aid them to settle their mutual difficulties on principles of impartial justice...