Word: adopter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University should never appear to be equivocating, nor should it be roundabout in its dealings with students. It held a defensible position in this matter, but it failed to adopt a forthright course...
...type-font, but originate in a wholly grave effort to make himself understood, to fix the attention of "bad readers" on the passage before them. Contemplating what has been done to Shakspere's punctuation, so that the meaning of many Shaksperian passages is often wrenched, Cummings was moved to adopt a system of punctuation which is singular, and its singularity will ensure him (a hundred years hence) of a pure text. His faith in textual critics, it seems, is unshakable...
...relative who had lost a child at birth asked her to find another to take its place. When Mrs. Walrath did so-in a Chicago maternity hospital-other people, for one reason or another childless, commenced asking her to do likewise. When she had placed 90 babies for adoption, she was confronted with a discovery that has never ceased to cause her wonder: there are more people who want to adopt babies than there are babies available for adoption...
...anything more than a few meaningless caresses to quiet the bawling baby. These financial issues must be settled once and for all before any steps toward recovery can be permanent ones, and once again the Secretary of the Treasury has proven disappointing in showing the government's unwillingness to adopt a definite plan of action...
Hitting hard at the plan to drop University financial support of the minor sports is 1936, the petition backed by four Freshmen makes an excellent statement of the case for their retection. Although this is a perfectly permissible stand to adopt from the abstract merit of the sports in themselves, the seven dollar levy which they propose as the means of financing them is obviously impracticable, since it is in effect an increase in tuition which would work hardship on many and would be unfair to an equal number. The issue then comes down to the question of whether...