Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Producer Bosustow (rhymes with adjust so), 39, who spent seven years with Disney, has built his outfit from six employees to a company of 75, with a $500,000-a-year business and a modern studio in Burbank, Calif. Since Columbia began releasing his cartoons two years ago at the rate of one a month, bookings have almost doubled...
Robert J. Schaefer, director of the program for the degree of Master of Arts in Teaching, in which Knaus is enrolled, described him as friendly but with very little poise. Schaefor said that Knaus had told him he found it difficult to adjust to the change from small-town Marietta College, in Ohieo, where he spent four years as an undergraduate, to the big university and the large city...
...seems to be trying to adjust to the world as it is, instead of leading the world where it wants to go and striking at the enemy who stands in the way. As long as the U.S. is passive, every specific problem from Indonesia to France is "impossible." If the U.S. takes the initiative, most of the problems will be seen as opportunities. The closest Secretary Acheson has come to recognizing this is to say that the U.S. is trying to create "situations of strength." But a situation of strength needs to be used to create new and greater situations...
Until a couple of months ago, tall, sandy-mustached Willard A. Pleuthner was only a vice president of a big Manhattan advertising agency (Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn Inc.). Last week dazed Adman Pleuthner was trying to adjust himself to the fact that he had suddenly become an important layman-consultant to the country's Protestant churches...
There are four ways, the four researchers found, in which nature helps the body to adjust itself after such radical surgery 1) some lost weight stays lost; 2) the absorptive power of the bowel wall increases; 3) the remaining small bowel gets bigger (it may double in diameter), allowing still more absorption; and 4) the large intestine learns to do some of the work of the shortened small intestine...