Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wings. She coached the young beauty into a quick, bright career as the Glamour Girl of 1939, but all ended in confusion when Cobina Jr. threw up her Hollywood contracts and married wealthy young Palmer Beaudette, son of a Detroit manufacturer. It took Cobina Sr. a long time to adjust to the change in her plans. It was two years, she confesses, before she was "made whole," and reconciled to the marriage...
...some day the oak may no longer be there. Then the model diplomat, capable and correct, must prove how well the British Foreign Office tradition of expertism and caution can adjust to the incautious and wild demands of the second half of the soth century. The answer must wait until Anthony Eden steps out of the oak's shadow...
Clark said the draft situation has added to be increasing problems of students as they leave college. "Faced with some form of military service in the near future the student should accept and adjust to it he added...
After all the backing & filling on steel prices, steel is getting ready for another rise. This week OPS sent out drafts of an order that will allow steelmen to adjust their prices to higher costs, using the Capehart formula. Only steelmen know how much the boost will be. But Washington price controllers, who have been saying no to an increase for months, now guess that steel may jump anywhere from a dollar or two to as high as $8 a ton, thus giving inflation another nudge...
...painstaking, back-breaking labor. Born in 1724, when the study of zoology was still rudimentary, he rented an isolated farm in Lincolnshire, and bought up a series of horse cadavers. Disregarding their gamy condition, he propped them upright with a series of bars and hooks, which allowed him to adjust the position of the legs to simulate motion. Then he dissected them muscle by muscle. After 18 months of study and a set of minutely detailed drawings, his curiosity was satisfied. One result of his studies, an elaborate tome entitled The Anatomy of the Horse, was a landmark for artists...