Word: adoptive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army was the first to adopt compulsory immunization against yellow fever. It was the first to require physical examinations of officers...
...British Commonwealth and the nations of Western Europe wish to enjoy closer association with us, and if for our part we wish similarly to link ourselves with them, the way . . . is clear. All they need to do is adopt written constitutions and apply for membership and all we need do is accept them. . . . Great Britain could come into the union, for example, as four States. . . . Canada could constitute another State. Australia, New Zealand and the contiguous islands might form still another...
Mary Pickford, sweetheart of the silents, wife of U.S. Navy Lieut. Charles ("Buddy") Rogers, adopted-six-year-old Ronald, planned to adopt seven-month-old Roxanne, hoped to adopt two more...
Sooner or later according to all past experiences this postwar period of prosperity will end in a depression unless we adopt a positive program to maintain full employment. This is the great new field of economic statesmanship. Our modern highly urbanized, highly industrialized sections can no longer stand the social strain and economic shock of great depressions...
Dick Eckert and Harry Poole, who pull Harvard's basketball strings, managerially speaking, adopt a middle-of-the-road attitude. Eckert sometimes has semi-fanatical tendencies, being a hoopster of no mean proportions himself, and has been known at times to grow irate when his worthies have been blasphemed by local college journals, but Dick is more prone to tend efficiently to his duties, as is Harry. And God help the opposing manager who tries to jockey with the time clock. When the Harvard five went out west this winter, it was Eckert who wrote the stories for local papers...