Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With his resignation Gatti made public the correspondence between himself and Board Chairman Paul Drennan Cravath. Mr. Cravath's letters were suitably regretful: "I find it difficult to adjust myself to the thought of the Metropolitan without you in charge. . . ." Sphinxian Gatti was characteristically formal: "This decision is taken in consideration of my rather mature age [65], and of the continued and exhausting hardships of a long directorial career...
...example, teachers are relatively free to adjust the school curriculum to a closer relation with the international realities of today. We can teach more of the international setting of our national history. We can teach more of the unpleasant truths of war. All this we ought to do in the interest of a better relation between public education and international realities...
There must have been just a bit of consternation at the story down on Morningside Heights the next morning and adjust a bit of a chuckle to temper it. For what else could worry Yale so that it had to practice on Sunday if it were not the thought that Columbia's Lou Little and his boys would only wait about another week before devouring the Bulldog, stub tall...
...indicate the condition of material, the efficiency of its operation. When, sometime next month, the Chief of Naval Operations receives reports on Exercise M, he will collate them, then subdivide them according to their interest to the various naval divisions. The engineering bureau may find something to correct or adjust after it reads how the Fleet's power plants functioned in the Caribbean. The communications, navigation and ordnance staffs may do likewise. Who won the battle of the Caribbean is not regarded by the Navy as important. A different set of officers, under actual war conditions, might successfully play...
...them to think about how the world is run and how it might be made better. Today students, at the dawn of what appears to be a new period in the world's history, have the freedom to consider calmly what the future shall be and how they may adjust themselves...