Word: adopts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...submit that Mr. Blanshard in his writings uses the research methods of a scholar. He cites chapter and verse. May I suggest that his critics, instead of declaring how "fantastic and hilariously funny" his writings are or how "adolescent" his mind is, adopt the same scholarly method which he uses, and in replying to him cite chapter and verse...
...major attempt at standardization failed. Britain went ahead with plans to replace her old .303-caL, bolt-action Lee-Enfield rifle, which dates back, to the Boer War, with a lighter, faster, .280-cal. automatic model. U.S. experts had hoped the British would adopt a -3O-cal. weapon capable of firing the same ammunition as the U.S. Garand...
...great novel, and The Foundling leaves that solid assumption undisturbed. The foundling of Cardinal Spellman's story turns up in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral shortly after World War I. The finder is a disfigured, heartsick war veteran named Paul Taggart. He wants to adopt the infant boy, but the boy has been born to a Roman Catholic mother and Taggart is a Protestant. Taggart settles for a lifetime devotion to the youngster, beginning with visits to see him in a Catholic orphanage. The boy in his own turn grows up to suffer wounds and disfigurement...
...eating clubs fail to adopt the plan, and no other way out of the present financial crisis is found, a quota will be put on scholarships of the class...
...spirited defense of these, rather than among a variety of tired mysticisms whose influence has retreated from astronomy, geology, anthropology, medicine, psychiatry, and morals as individual knowledge has advanced in these fields. The choice for us here at Harvard is not to pessimistically decide which shallow code we shall adopt, but rather to work and think as individuals within no supposedly supernaturally imposed limits...