Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...full department dedicated to the study of phrenology may yet flourish under John Harvard's benevolent aegis. But indeed it may be truly said that University Hall's failure to recognize the noble discipline with even a puny half-course is but another reflection of Harvard's inability to adjust to anything--be it past, present, future, or timeless...
...Venice Junior High School, a $548,213 building for 450 pupils, an uncompromisingly modular steel, concrete and glass campus plan that Architects John Crowell of Sarasota, 43, and Mark Hampton of Tampa, 35, thought would best adjust to the changing demands of function. Colored panels and waffle-grid roof lighten the heavy industrial look...
...trying," Leighton disclosed, "to adjust the Dudley staff to meet the specific needs of Dudley students." This year, for instance, the House has 39 students in the "physical sciences," but no tutors in that field...
Moving too quickly, Vag tried to adjust it, but his thick fingers were clumsy, and the strap broke in his hand...
...first time in modern U.S. history, a federal court last week restricted the President's powers to adjust tariffs. The three-judge U.S. Customs Court in New York ruled 2 to i that the President cannot alter the recommendations of the U.S. Tariff Commission under the "escape clause" of the Trade Agreements Act, which permits the President to adjust tariffs or impose quotas to help U.S. industries that can prove they are being damaged by imports...