Word: adjustments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both the Chemistry and Biology departments have found it necessary to adjust the number of courses they offer. Convinced of the need for all chemists to have identical basic training, the Chemistry department has made no changes in the content of its existing courses, but has added Chemistry 2b to its program. This concentrated course in organic chemistry, the only course added by the department since Pearl Harbor, is a full course pressed into one semester to prepare its 15 enrollees for the early opening of medical schools on July...
Colleges and graduate schools throughout the country will have to adjust themselves to new conditions arising from the disappearance of large private fortunes and the weakening of the nation's middle class, Dean Wallace B. Donham of the Business School said yesterday in his annual report...
...than the claim) and one-third of Mr. Roosevelt's record-breaking number of vetoes goes to claim bills each year-by law he must give a reason for each veto, which means costly research all over again. So he suggested legislation empowering the various executive departments to adjust claims up to $1,000, with claims over $500 to be reviewed by the Attorney General; that U.S. district courts be given jurisdiction over such tort claims up to $7,500, with right of appeal to the Court of Claims...
Getting Used to It. Men can adjust themselves to Antarctic living, but their bodies acquire a new balance, reported Physiologist Ernest E. Lockhart. The repeated stimulus of low temperatures makes blood pressure increase by 25 to 35% and makes the rates of respiration and heart-beat decrease somewhat. Basal metabolism is about 10 to 15% lower than in temperate climates. These reactions were unexpected, for they do not occur among Eskimos...
Defeat. In Salem, Ore., eight years after he bought his uniform as State Police Superintendent, Charles P. Pray gave it away, explained: "I just couldn't adjust myself to wearing...