Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letting in some new air, the breeze has gotten a bit out of hand, and some of the trusted precepts on the desk near the window have been roughed up, there is normally a net gain. This is usually so, because good-will toward the aspirations of mankind is the most frequent hall-make of CRIMSON writers, and besides, it is more fun trying to run a good sheet than a mediocre...
...nothing new. The great 200-in. telescope at Mt. Palomar, weighing 500 tons, swung as smooth as silk on its massive bearings. The astronomers, deliberately avoiding objects of great interest, pointed it at arbitrary spots in the sky, just trying it out. The telescope, they explained, needed a good bit of delicate adjustment before it was ready to take worthwhile pictures...
...with a certain pleasant surprise that I find, in a popular American magazine with a wide circulation like TIME, motion-picture criticism which is independent, impartial, and which doesn't in the least bit cater to the interests of American motion-picture industries...
...National Motor Boat Show, they were "piped aboard" by the cheery notes of a boatswain's whistle. There was another cheery note: in the cheaper price class there were more boats than ever. Some prices were down from last year's, though most were up a bit...
...Just because this is a school of physical education, a lot of people think the girls are a bit rough," Miss Kitchin continued. "That isn't true at all; they learn how to be social hostesses." She noted that student government leaders had joined the faculty a few years ago in a campaign to make the girls quit walking around Cambridge in slacks and dungarees. After a stern battle, the rank and file agreed to wear these epitomes only on the upper floors of the dormitories. Miss Kitchin said in a firm voice: "Any girls in slacks or dungarees...