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Word: fitful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Traditions. What are they? What do they mean? Are they the effete practices that thin-blooded men of degenerate stock use to bolster their sense of defeated pride? Are they outworn customs fit only for academic discussions? Are they part of the life-blood of the Nation? What are they, and are they worth following...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tradition at West Point Places the Plebe Lower Socially Than the Dust He Grovels In | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

...prevented from working out with Team A. The Crimson forces will be brought to their full strength for the West Point clash with the return of J. W. Potter '30, full back, S. L. Batchelder '31, halfback, and F. S. Davis '30, tackle, all of whom will be fit before the end of the week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO INJURIES REPORTED FROM SATURDAY'S TILT | 10/16/1928 | See Source »

There is no editorial comment on the interviews, such as one might expect, and the editors might have seen fit to put in. It would have been easy to spoil things by inserting, at the end of the chapter on student morals, some tongue-clucking viewing-with-alarm. But no; you can read confession and revelation, and decide for yourself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Colleges | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...certain to be a vacancy in the Supreme Court before long. Mr. Associate Justice Holmes, oldest of all the high-benchers, looked as hale and bright-of-eye as ever at 87. Even Mr. Associate Justice Sutherland, 66, who was sick and absent so much of last year, looked fit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Supreme | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...Republican Party has nominated a candidate whose intellectual and moral equipment . . . especially fit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Senators | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

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