Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forgotten campaign. They have proved themselves "attached to recognized heresies", and must be "relieved of all duties as instructors of the youth of the nation". Evidently the Enquirer is not satisfied that the benightedness of ignorant opinion is a sufficient punishment; some more positive and noteworthy chastisement can alone fit the Enquirer's feeling for divine justice...
...Secondly, that despite the satisfaction given by the Egyptian Government concerning the assassination of Sir Lee Stack, the Chamber regrets to note that the British Government has seen fit to exploit this sad incident for the benefit of its imperialistic aims and to wreak vengeance upon a pacific nation which can only rely upon the justice and right of its cause...
...conditions under which the games were played. It is hardly just to compare the early October showing of the team with the late November form of another. It is extremely difficult to judge an eleven playing in a quagmire of mud. Probably the hardest task of all is to fit the Harvard players into their proper niche, as their showing for the entire season must be considered...
...Constantly they sent to her "proposers." (When a Polish peasant wishes to propose, he sends two friends with vodka to the lady of his choice. If she drinks to him, they are assumed to be affianced.) Yagna bestowed her heart nowhere, and her shrewd mother had not yet seen fit to bestow her hand...
...blade, twice the width of the animal's throat, they severed with a delicate stroke, scrupulously exact, the fourth ventricle of the trembling sheep, permitting the body to lie undisturbed until the blood had thoroughly drained from its lax veins. The ritual has never changed. Meat that is not fit for a sacrifice is, to the orthodox, not fit to eat. If there is any blemish in the manner of the killing, the meat of that killing is treife, unclean; it taints whatever it touches, and it were better for a man to cut off his right hand than...