Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...theological system, Tillich has attempted to bring together liberal and orthodox Christianity. He advocates that the Christian, without losing his image of Christ as the Savior, must adjust the externals of his faith, his philosophy, and his culture to the circumstances of his time...
...wrist to perform more than 100 different jobs, the new Shopsmith contains the first important improvements since the original model hit the market with a bang in 1947. The exposed drive belt, a hazard to juvenile fingers, has been enclosed, and a new speed control enables the woodworker to adjust the speed of saws, sanders, etc. simply by turning a dial to "saw" or "disc sand" in the same way a housewife adjusts an electric mixer. Price...
...Director Renoir is often too full of beautiful things he wants to say to pay a decent respect to how he says them. Bad scenes stand out glaringly against the fine features of his films. The story sometimes has to snore in the parlor while Renoir fondly lingers to adjust an esthetic or intellectual spit curl. All the same, his pulsing joy in all he feels and sees sweeps through his pictures...
...wish the CRIMSON would discard its mantle of petulant and partisan criticism of Republican policy. I'm sure it was a dreary day for the CRIMSON when funny-boy Stevenson was defeated by a popular here who did not have direct experience in politics. The CRIMSON seems unable to adjust to the fact that the Republicans are in office, and that the President has shown himself to be a sane and extremely able leader...
...ways, a few hours of give & take interviews may suffice. The older the boy and the more deep-rooted the habit, the longer the treatment and the less the chances of success. Some who will not give up the habit can be helped to adjust to society so that they will do no further harm to others...