Word: adopts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been the first to establish practically every House activity. It was the first to look for a House crost, staged the initial House dance, put House athletic teams in the field the first year long before Dunster. It desired House colors and forced all the other Houses to adopt them also. Now Lowell ties have entered the field--they are even worn with cutaway and wing collar on Easter--and more rigmarole is promised...
...advantages to be gained in having a cultural college course precede a specialized training in engineering have been pointed out many times before. But, as shown above, such a combination can not be required by the University. It is attempting now, however, to persuade its engineering students to adopt this course of their own volition. If the persuasion succeeds, Harvard may some day have a graduate engineering school in fact but not in deed. In declaring for the separation of the undergraduates in the college and the Engineering School the University has taken the first step in this direction...
...Stimson enunciated in his letter to Senator Borah (TIME. March 7). Thus Sir John tucked some exceedingly strange bedfellows into the League bed, but at the same time he kept Mother Britain's apron clear, no matter what may happen. Blame for the policy which the League proceeded to adopt was promptly heaped by Tokyo upon Washington. "Mr. Stimson," said the Japanese Foreign Office spokesman acidly, "is leading the League by the nose...
...credit to keep pace with estimated industrial growth. Author Crowther shares the Sloan and Snyder view and sounds it off pointblank: ''Unemployment and poverty are hardly to be considered as the natural sequences to plenty, yet that is the conclusion we are bound to reach if we adopt the theory of overproduction as a cause for business disaster. These disasters are not . . . business disasters. They are financial. The one thing lacking is money-credit." The book as a whole emits the familiar sound of big shots in the dark proclaiming dawn...
Thus far the Democrats have hung together in spite of the difficulties which confront any program which they may adopt. Now, however, they question the ability of Mr. Garner to choose the proper course. They have divided on the question of the sales tax. Evidently actuated by strong pressure from their constituents, the Democratic members of the House threaten to revolt against the Speaker, and refuse to pass the new levy...