Word: adopter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before social mobility could be attained it would be necessary to break the back of economic power. It would be necessary for the government to adopt extreme measures such as completely confiscatory inheritance taxes. It is true that Mr. Conant briefly takes cognizance of these problems, but he vastly under-rates them. The fact remains that it is impossible automatically to redistribute power and privilege at the end of each generation unless there is a simultaneous radical redistribution of wealth...
...following the game, Coach Dick Harlow effectively summed up the situation by saying, "It was a question of a good, experienced team playing one with possibilities." Perhaps remembering the Cornell game a year ago and the subsequent success of a slow starting eleven, Dick and his staff refused to adopt a defeatist attitude...
Because of the varied nationalities and languages of his students, he can not give group courses in English. Cloud had to adopt the system of giving individual instruction to each foreigner. Coupled with a 100 per cent increase in American students who have been reported for faulty English this year, this new influx of foreigners into Holyoko 18 has produced great activity for the Committee...
...University Tutors, which was founded in 1931 by Joseph Hurwitz, failed to open its doors this fall. It was the first tutoring school to adopt the practice of mass reviews after William "The Widow" Nelen died. It was also the first school to use high-powered salesmanship methods and extensive advertising...
...truth which must not be overlooked, no matter how greatly individual tastes may vary: art is beginning to have political and social implications; it is becoming closely intertwined with the earth upon which we walk and the lives which we lead. Consequently, since art is in the process of adopting us, it is only fair that it adopt, to some extent, the ethical pattern within which we exist. Despite the fact that Epstein's interpretation of ADAM does not fit our own pattern of ethics, it still remains a solid contribution to the advancement of culture because of its thought...