Word: befitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crumb of knowledge; he gives knowledge for hope. There is even a suggestion that they may meet at the dance hall the following Saturday. The novel has its charm-a disconcerting quality in a New Realist book-but the woman's magazine touch at the end does not befit...
Folly pursues us at every stage of our lives. If someone seems wise, it is only because his follies befit his age and his position...
Harvard had its own controversy, top. The Student Council issued a report advising the University to split the three undergraduate classes into separate houses, each holding two to three hundred students, in a plan somewhat like the Oxford-Cambridge system. The Class of '27 would never enjoy the befit of the plan, but the Council's report led directly to the Present House system...
...pets of them. A devout member of the Disciples of Christ (she has her own chapel at Longview as well as a half-mile training track), she refuses to compete in a horse event on Sunday. At the National last week, Loula Combs was getting a special dispensation to befit her royal station: "The Garden has been so nice. They haven't scheduled any event of my class on Sunday, so I won't miss anything...