Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aptitudes include editing, photography, research, mechanical ability and willingness to adjust to any occupation or environment. Assets-wife and twins...
...aviation epics. More lately his forte has been screwball comedies (Nothing Sacred). To Wellman these apparently dissimilar types seem closely connected. The extraordinary conduct of Pat Falconer in Men With Wings illustrates his belief that Wartime fliers experienced such intense emotional turmoil that none of them afterwards could adjust themselves to normal living...
Williston is lecturing in place of Dean James Landis, professor of Legislation, while the latter is serving in Washington on a commission, appointed by President Roosevelt, to adjust national railroad difficulties. Edmund M. Morgan, Bussey Professor of Law, has assumed the duties of acting dean...
...week ago Sunday, students who had missed Governor Hurley's proclamation continuing Daylight Saving Time, spent most of the sabbath attempting to adjust themselves and their timepieces...
...recently created a "jazz laboratory" at CBS. Here, with recording equipment, engineers and arrangers at his disposal, he is continuing his curious task of building music directly for the microphone. His method is to start one player on a rhythm or a phrase of melody, add another instrument, adjust the balance between the two, throw in a dash of drumming or a splash of saxophone, and simmer the resultant mixture until ready for recording. With the help of recordings and re-recordings he can finally work up this concoction into a sort of musical composition...