Word: adopter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country is now in a state where it is liable to swing too far in this direction. Policies are being adopted in Washington which should be forged on the anvil of national debate and the Republican party has the responsibility in seeing that this is accomplished. They allowed an admiration for individuality coupled with a dread of control and social legislation to destroy their chances for success in the early years of the depression. Desirable indications point to the fact that they are abandoning this attitude and trying to adopt a position of the minimum control consistent with the national...
...having to take emergency steps like the Washington administration, President Conant is forming Harvard's now deal slowly and cautiously. However, when he does adopt a measure after deliberation it is with as outward suddenness that make one almost think that the days of red tape are at an end. By adopting Dean Hanford's admirable suggestions and making use of the already established talent at University Hall he has laid to rest the fears that he will run to extremes. Eliot made Harvard a fine University; Lowell developed the College; Conant has the task in coming years of coordinating...
...reporters had privately mocked the inanities of other people's conventions they had been sent to cover, behaved much the same as physicians or plumbers or politicians, gathered for an annual meeting. They talked loud about professional standards, damned ''company unions" and even found time to adopt a resolution for the immediate release of Tom Mooney. The most direct attack on the job problem was a recommendation that local Guild negotiations with publishers include such well-recognized union items as the closed shop, the checkoff, dismissal notices, vacations and sick leaves with pay, 40 hr.-five...
...Nice Girl: **** is an outdoor girl, although she is no less adopt on the dance floor than on a pair of skle. Her great love of people carries her enthusiasm for friendship around the class because as soon no she makes one friend she goes after another. To us she is a ray of sunshine on a blue Monday. Future occupation: patroness...
...have seen one president advocating a 'Now Nationalism' another president advocating a 'New Freedom,' a well known novelist talking about a 'New Patriotism'--phrases that illustrate just this vague fumbling. With us the recognized way of pinning down something we feel to be in the air is to adopt some cast-off phrase and put a 'New' before it. A pleasant thrill runs over the country, something which is felt to be new having been recognized...