Word: adopter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decided, according to the report, to adopt the second alternative, and to close the Widener Memorial building evenings and all day Sunday. This enabled a saving of half the necessary amount in heat and light, in cleaning, and in wages paid to part-time and to over-time workers. The remainder has been obtained by paring all along the line in supplies and equipment, by purchasing fewer books, and by giving up the checking service in the coat room...
Declared Roosevelt Secretary Louis McHenry Howe, lecturing Columbia University journalism students in Manhattan: "You can't adopt politics as a profession and remain honest...
...easy to understand why the professor should sometimes adopt the procedure he does. He believes that by so doing he prevents those who have gone to the tutoring bureaus from getting a good grade in the course. But the evil connected with the system is that if he has delivered a killing blow to the Widow's patrons, he may at the same fell swoop, have hurt those average students who have been steadily working during the term...
...Roosevelt plans to adopt in respect to Latin America the 'big stick' policy which made Theodore Roosevelt well hated below the Rio Grande...
...cities hospitalization now ranges between 56% and 85% of all live births. The majority of [the nation's] births, however, still take place at home, 1,500,000 out of the 2,200,000 annually." ¶ "These statements certainly are astonishing. However, if we would really adopt the opinion that the increasing hospitalization of parturient women is not an improvement, is it a development which depends at all on us obstetricians, or the medical profession? Could we, even if we would, stop this development and bring back the times when every married woman had her baby in her home...