Word: adopter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being coordinate in rank. The desirability of teamwork and harmony on legislative programs has come to be understood by the people as meaning cooperation in a broad sense so as to avoid tiresome delays and quibbling opposition. It remains to be seen, however, whether the people are ready to adopt the European idea and place all the power in the hands of the executive so that members of Congress hereafter become rubber stamps...
...showgirl? There are many attempted solutions to this problem which provides the plot for "Journal of a Crime" at the Paramount and Fenway Theatres. Ruth Chatterton could be expected to appear only in that drama where the solution was "a desperate act." It is not fitting that she should adopt the simple formula of Dorothy Dix--"give your husband a little something to worry about." Miss Chatterton seizes a solution that would command the hearty approval of Oswald Spengler--she pulls the trigger on her rival...
This appointment launches the project of the creation of a centralized purchasing department for municipal supplies and equipment. By this action, Cambridge becomes the sixth city in Massachusetts to adopt this system, which is expected to save about 15 per cent of the total cost of city's purchases...
...head of the State, he had a chance for the first time in a generation to appreciate the layman's point of view as governments fell, week after week, month after month, with nothing done. But. like most Frenchmen, honest "Gastounet" is at heart extremely conservative. He may adopt such simple superficial reforms as commend themselves to his cautious Gallic mind. But anyone who expects him to remake the legislative and political machine of France, to rid it of blocs, to break with deep-rooted traditions, is likely to be disappointed...
...have nothing to do with him, but he saw to it that they were helped. When the report came that Hedwig was dead and Klaus had disappeared, John thought that was the end. But when Klaus turned up in England as a stowaway John found him again, managed to adopt him, gradually weaned him from the horrors that had cost him his memory. Klaus fell in love with an English girl, was beginning to settle down when a letter came from Germany, from a girl who had saved his life and mothered him for months when...