Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...builders of Connecticut's first auto tunnel have thought of everything. They have wired 300-watt bulbs to the roof, and spaced them closer near the entrance, so motorists eyes can adjust slowly from the daylight...
...note that you are going to Europe . . . While there, doubtless you will adjust the European situation. When you adjust it satisfactorily and return to your own country, I may write you again...
...horn-rimmed glasses, lurched and fumbled his way to an improbable success in film milestones like "The Freshman," against competition from such adept funnymen as Buster Keaton and Chaplin himself. "Movie Crazy" shows what happened when sound hit the screen, and the champions of the gestured word had to adjust. Most of the time, they didn't bother...
...Them Stew." While fans tried to adjust to the latest milestone of the little girl who grew up so fast, the gossips tried to piece out fragments of feverish rumor. In Manhattan, Crooner Johnny Johnston, 33, stoutly denied any romantic involvement with Shirley. In Hollywood, his wife. Cinemactress Kathryn Grayson, 26, admitted that she had exchanged harsh words with Shirley about Johnston but, she added, all that was over now. Both Johnston and his wife accused Professional Golfer Joe Kirkwood Jr., 28, who plays Joe Palooka on the screen, of trying to brew a romance between Shirley and Johnston...
...troubles can be blamed on World War II. The bureau keeps a file of 120,000 companies which it uses as a sample for measuring overall employment. During, and after, the war BLS failed to adjust its totals for new industries or industries that had declined in importance. Future estimates, hopes BLS, will be good and true...