If the metal was known to the Ancients it must have been locally, for by its greater adaptability to brass-making it would probably have supplanted the crude melting of copper with zinc minerals.
With the use of the words adaptability and adjustability, our discussion assumes a somewhat different aspect.
This shows the tremendous adaptability of the pecan, and it is hoped that this ability to adapt itself to soil and climatic conditions will eventually cause it to produce small but edible pecans here in the north.
The next step will be to test these selections to determine their adaptability to our varying conditions.
But such an expectation is largely conditioned by these delicate questions of adaptability that my tour of the front has made very urgent in my mind.
In France it is probably not so marked because of the greater flexibility and adaptability of the French culture.
It may sound shameful; but Jimmy had about him anadaptability that was surprising, and that had long since sounded the first notes of his success.
You pay some attention to adaptability to the piano or the violin: why are you usually regardless of fitness for the voice?
What a pedantic outcry about German want ofadaptability for singing!
The fact that results are not immeasurably worse than they are is no small tribute to the adaptability of the American character.
But adaptability can do no more than raise one to the level of one's surroundings--not above them.
Your adaptability might easily lead to other things.
It was perhaps in some manifestation of sensitiveness that he failed; he had the adaptability of the pioneer among rugged conditions, but he could not mingle quite immediately with the essence of them; he did not perceive the genius loci.
It is a fact, or perhaps a parable, that should be interesting to political economists, the adaptability of Canadian feet to American shoes; but fortunately it is not our present business.
Infinite adaptability had been the result of a desire to please and charm; behind which lay an unlimited determination to get her own way and bend other wills to hers.
It did not occur to him that Byng was the kind of man who would be comparing Jasmine's quite wonderful delicacy, perfumed grace, and exquisite adaptability with the somewhat coarser beauty and genius of the singer.
An exceedingly interesting line of study, which has occupied the attention of many naturalists, is the wonderful perfection displayed in the adaptability of the male and female parts of plants to each other.
Nothing is more interesting in the natural world than the wonderful beauty, diversity, and perfect adaptability to various conditions and functions, which we see in the sexual parts of plants.
The results thus far attained prove the wonderful adaptability of soil and climate to choice fruits.
It has been said that English money supplied this road, Scotch energy built it, and Irish keenness and adaptability run it.
So that it will be refused, no longer, as now, almost exclusively in regard to the gravity of the crime, but in regard to the greater or less re-adaptability of the criminal to social conditions.
The habit of forming mental speeches is a great aid to actual speech-making, as it tends to give the mind a power and anadaptability which it would not otherwise have.
No other city on the southern continent has greater advantages in its geographical position, or as regards salubrity of climate and adaptability to commerce.
All the birds one sees in these far away regions have each some peculiar adaptability to the climate, the locality, or to both.
The charm of domestic residences in any part of the globe is a certain adaptability to the natural surroundings, and is, when well conceived, a graceful part of the whole.
It has indicated its adaptability to a wide range of the country; it succeeds on a great variety of soils and it is both hardy and early to come into bearing.
Thus it is evident that it is not possible to lay down fixed rules of conduct either for operations or for the outposts, but all must be left to the capacity of the Leader and the adaptability of his men.
According to the demands of the moment, the individual Corps or Divisions were grouped in manifold proportions to constitute such units, and the adaptability of this organization proved sufficient to cope with every eventuality.
The abundant heat, almost perennial sunshine, and dry atmosphere, together with the fine adaptability of the soil and the great length of the growing season, join forces to produce fruits of superior size and excellence.
Such knowledge secured some adaptability or flexibility in the directions, thereby greatly extending their use.
They were thus agreed as to the desirableness of some adaptability in one's ideas.
Doubtless there are persons so lacking in personal adaptability that success in this kind of work would be for them impossible.
Adaptability grows with experience and with increase of self-confidence.
Stern defines intelligence as "the general capacity of an individual consciously to adjust his thinking to new requirements: it is general adaptability to new problems and conditions of life.
The most weighty reason is that a higher degree of adaptability is required of workers than is the case in the manufacture of men's clothing.
Even moderate success is denied to a boy if he has not adaptability and the capacity to grasp business ideas and methods; but a comparatively high degree of success could be attained by a girl who possessed neither of these qualifications.
There was something at once pathetic and sublime in his adaptability to the broken suits of fortune.
But, after a day or two, the same human adaptability that had made him accept the life in Ward 1 as a matter of course rose to the new environment and occasion.
