Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After the first saturation period, the physician, by cautious experimenting, discovers exactly how large a maintenance dose the patient needs to carry him comfortably through his daily life. Patients should learn, said Dr. Rutherford, "to give themselves the injections, just as diabetic patients administer their own insulin . . . [and] to adjust their own dosage as their requirements demand...
...Hale & hearty but nearing 70, Robert Hervey Cabell retired last week as president of Armour & Co., announced he would go to war-jittery England in January, to adjust personal financial interests acquired there during his 20 years as Armour's London representative. His successor: Executive Vice-President George Eastwood...
...test of Britain's Government was not its claim to the loyalty of its people, which few doubted, but the ability of its venerable institutions to change quickly, to face a crisis, to adjust its slow-turning machinery to the swift emergencies of war. Test of Britain's men was not the sincerity of their aims, which few besides Hitler questioned, but their ability to act promptly, strike hard if necessary, change their pace as Hitler changed...
...notably a fat U. S. countess (Mary Boland) with a crush on a cowboy named Buck, and Sylvia Fowler's own marital Nemesis, gay but tenacious Show-girl Miriam Aarons (Paulette Goddard). The drama of The Women is the effort of a good woman to adjust herself to a social pattern in which she is as much at a disadvantage as a Pekingese out foraging with a pack of Siberian wolves. Mary does succeed in keeping her happiness, but not until she too has done a little clawing...
...contrary, it seems to me, that the obvious job of the students is the assimilation and organization of his own course work. There may be a few cases of excessive course requirement which the faculty might adjust, but the student should hardly complain until he has made very sure that it is impossible to do the work by putting in the minimum of two hours daily per course...