Word: adoptive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believed that the H.S.U. will make offers of alliance or of collaboration with the Liberal Union, its erring branch, and with the Student Defense League, both of which organizations are following the same line of policy as the H.S.U. is expected to adopt this year...
Other lands have adopted V for Victory, but we should adopt VV for Vicarious Victory. The following formula may bring it, if the traditional luck of fools is granted also to the timid...
What College sympathies will be this year there is no telling. The Student Union, most violent of the isolationist groups, has always been accused of Communistic leanings, but whether it will adopt the Daily Worker switch remains to be seen.HARVARD SOLDIER, 1916 VERSION, heaves a hand grenade out of the trench near Fresh Pond...
...experts, the theorists, the ax grinders finished their pleading before the Senate Finance Committee. The shouting died away. Behind closed doors, the committee began drafting their idea of the 1942 tax bill to raise $3,500,000,000. Indications were they would adopt almost none of the new proposals, would stick close to the bill the House had already voted...
...want it anyway. Birds and fishes are likely to mistake inanimate objects for the insects on which they feed, so they can easily mistake an unpalatable insect for a tasty one-unless the former distinguishes himself by loud red, orange or yellow markings (although some other palatable animals adopt conspicuous markings in order to resemble unpalatable or poisonous varieties). Studies of 200 kinds of insects eaten by U.S. birds show that none of the palatable varieties is conspicuously marked. Among California salamanders, those eaten by snakes are concealingly colored and hide by day, and those which snakes avoid as nauseous...