Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Police promised a week of leniency to local motorists while they adjust themselves to the gadgets, before they clamp down on violators. First offenders will merely be given a warning. After that, there will be successive penalties of one, two, three, and five dollars for each offense...
...Team." She was taken down to Publicity and introduced to Melvina Pumphrey (Mel is very good with new girls). It would be Mel's job to help Miss Kerr "adjust" to a new way of life. Mel would be her immediate contact with the public and press. She would instruct Deborah in what to say and what not to say. She would be present at every interview and would report to the studio on what had been said. Deborah and Tony were reminded, in velvet tones, that they were "on the team" now and were expected to "play ball...
...Russia have created nervousness in both nations. The questions of atomic control and disarmament are as yet unsettled. With the writing of the German peace treaty and the World Economic Conference in the near offing, there is reason enough for the Big Three to make every effort possible to adjust their strained relations. The most effective way of doing this is for the respective leaders of the powers concerned to sit down with their advisors and discuss their various grievances. The value of high level discussions is evidenced by the optimism that enveloped the world last fall--an optimism created...
...service to resume control. Every team is thus practically on a par from the stand-point of experience with a system, and the season now in its infancy will be an excellent test of each coach's ability, as well as the capabilities of the individual ball players to adjust themselves to a new mode of play...
Working at Home. Since last January, Mary Howard has recorded at home; network programs are piped directly to her studio in midtown Manhattan. Throughout them all, she has to adjust continually an intricate assembly of instruments: turntable speed controls, cutting tools, a wailful of sound devices. But engineering does only half the job; the rest is subject to the varying laws of a wholly inexact science: taste...