Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...honor to Lafayette. But Lafayette had to steal away. The French Government tried to arrest him while he was going. He had undertaken to to fit out a ship. He was deprived of the opportunity of taking it and stole away like a criminal from the French Government which was so deeply in sympathy with America...
...active service during the World War with the first British army, the "contemptibles", at Mons and at the Marne, and later held a very prominent position under the Chief of Staff of the British Army. Yet he seemed to fit perfectly into the office in the Widener Library stacks where he was studying several books on General Lee spread out before him on the desk. Someone once spoke of him as the "scholar in arms" and the name has stuck...
...best of the fun lies in the fact that the School so largely brought this on itself. An upstart in the Harvard world, it has seen fit to ignore the fact that it has a perfectly respectable ancestry, although not of the best traditional stock, deriving from the long-ago time when Professor Dunbar convinced his colleagues that an economist might be a scholar. With the cock-sureness of youth, the School chose to demonstrate in its own way its preference for such things as the newest classic slogan, the clarion call to "Take Baby...
...foremost candidate was Senator Medill McCormick of Illinois, who leaves his comrades on Mar. 4 because the Republicans of Illinois did not see fit to renominate him last year. A number of Senators spoke a good word to the President on their colleague's behalf-even Mr. Borah was reported to have done so. Yet while these movements were being made toward his appointment, others of the Senator's friends advised him against going to Germany because of the political situation in Illinois-the hope that Governor Len Small might be removed from office by court proceedings...
...noxious petition accused the University of truckling to business interests to the detriment of its educational standards. The stigma of this accusation lingers. It is either true or untrue. That the legislature has not thought fit to interfere neither proves nor disproves the charges. But Harvard men--both graduates and undergraduates--can not rest upon this noncommittal result. The interests of the University demand that the Alumni assume responsibility for a thorough investigation by the proper authorities to establish the facts...