Word: adjustable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...1/25th of an inch each day until the leg is stretched. The patient feels no pain during the stretching. Three inches is the maximum stretch. The tendons are also snipped in a Z-pattern, pulled to the desired length at once, stitched tight. Blood vessels, nerves and smaller muscles adjust themselves naturally. Five to eight months after the operation, the pins are removed and the patient again has use of his leg. If the operation is performed on children around 12, the short leg usually grows in length as fast as the normal leg. In a few cases, when patients...
...President Donald Nelson to take it), Elmer Andrews is lucky that so far he has not antagonized either C. I. O. or A. F. of L. But he will have his work cut out for him enforcing the Wages-&-Hours law and managing the boards he will pick to adjust wages and hours in specific industries...
...this imposing list, Lord Jeff adds nothing more grueling than a sojourn in a foundling's home, which Cinemactor Bartholomew endures with his accustomed fortitude. The result is scarcely scintillating or surprising, but provides acceptable entertainment for those who have enjoyed its star's efforts to adjust himself to even less agreeable circumstances...
...theory of economic crises to Karl Marx and asserting that pump-priming will prove futile, the crop-haired chairman of the biggest U. S. commercial bank proclaimed: "Reforms which, coming one by one. would be sound and helpful, can generate chaos if they come so quickly that men cannot adjust themselves to all of them simultaneously. I think that nothing is more needed at the present time than a prolonged period of quiet, not a three to six months' breathing spell, but a two or three years' breathing spell, during which both Government and business can consolidate, modify...
...whole Shantung-Honan-Hopeh area the Japanese last week were showing none of the decisive "punch" to which harried Chinese have become resigned at Hankow, the capital of Chiang. Spirits were high on the eve of a Kuomintang Congress scheduled for this week to adjust points of difference with the Chinese Communists. Of China and Japan able Chicago Daily Newsman A. T. Steele flashed from Hankow: "Each side believes that the other is on the brink of an internal breakdown, but each is dead wrong as far as the immediate future is concerned. .... The Government here is scarcely recognizable...