Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...program of President Jabez N. Jackson of Kansas City, Mo., who took office at Washington last week, will be to have every medical student put through a course of medical ethics to teach him the idealism of his profession, the art of applying his science to human needs, and fit counterblasts to the hordes of medical cultists...
...opinion that Harvard has found it necessary to change the date of the annual Brown contest and, after doing so has not been able to fit the game into another place on its prearranged schedule...
Along with the huge increase in American university enrollment during the past decade there is also to be noted a striking change in the manner in which these hordes of students are spending their summer vacations. Time was, and not so long ago, when the only fit place for the undergraduate from June to September was a hammock, nicely fortified with cooling drinks and those strange things known as summer novels. In any other position he was considered anachronistic; somehow a winter occupied with scholastic endeavors demanded a quite idle and useless antidote...
Linus ("Pony") McAtee, 29. is a jockey. Nature had made him dark and small?but not quite lean enough for a jockey. Sometimes he had to take off so much weight before a race that he felt his skin did not quite fit him. This was hard on his health, made his complexion sallow and his digestive system awry. Nevertheless, he was considered one of the best jockeys of the Harry Payne Whitney stables. People were surprised last year when he suddenly left Mr. Whitney. He had a reason...
...Elizabeth Mumford, 51, convicted of pilfering $20,956 in ten years from the county school board by raising checks, because, he said, he came of stock which believed no woman should be punished "unless she had reached such a state of depravity that she was no longer a fit person to be at freedom...