Word: adopting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Martinez Sierra by John Garrett Underbill, is the last and foremost of the 14th Street repertory. It is a tender melody of women, who, having taken the veil, strive with wistful severity, to abjure the world's dancing sunbeams for the grey routine of a Dominican convent. They adopt a baby girl. As the foundling sings from the cradle to womanhood, the nuns feel themselves, by her presence, just a little nearer to the throbbing joys of their dreaming. One day, the girl marries a young man and goes away. There is very little plot, even less action...
...their beats, for instance, if headquarters wanted to broadcast the description and license number of an automobileful of thugs fleeing town. Chief Zober and his aids were impressed by the device's perfect functioning for a radius of 150 ft., waited only for a city wide demonstration to adopt the equipment for the Passaic force. Inventor Rusch claimed a 3.5-mi. radius on a wave length (15 metres) short enough to insure secrecy from the listening public...
...tutorial system is perhaps the most interesting of recent experiments in American university education. Introduced on trial, it was decided not to adopt the English system on bloc, but to adapt that system to local needs. The method was first employed...
...subtle student to commence accosting his section men with the title professor." What could be more offensive that this, suggesting, as it does, that a sop to the pride of these underlings will influence the mark of the student? The obvious course open to the faculty is to adopt the now popular method of severing relations with the offending sheet...
...first sight it might seem unwise to adopt unconditionally a system formerly discarded but the New Hampshire bill appears to be in reality an unusually far-sighted compromise between the two methods. It provides for party conventions whose nominations shall in ordinary cases take the place of expensive and possibly corrupt primaries, at the same time safoguarding the rights of the individual by making it possible for a candidate with sufficient support to appeal for a regular election, if dissatisfied with the decision of the convention of his party. It is foreseen that "appeal elections" will probably be demanded...