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Word: fitful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work, the first step in the social ladder whose top rung is a full professorship. The third difficulty with these tutors is that they are, and again for the most part, men who have not finished their own university training and who, therefore, cannot attack the problem of becoming fit tutors because of the pressure of their own work. "Finishing their own university training" does not necessarily imply that the tutor has obtained his doctorate. Merely, must he be mentally and physically free for what must be considered a very serious business...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THESE TUTORS | 11/13/1926 | See Source »

...without becoming dispossessed of her perch upon the Ibis bough. Unlike Horace who was quite selfish when his famous tree fell, the CRIMSON worries more about the tree than the fact that its fall hurt no one but the reputation of him, who in the dark of night, saw fit to saw the Ibis tree. Such gestures should remain the prerogative of the insane--perhaps they have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CUT DIRECT | 11/11/1926 | See Source »

Guarnaccia Will be Fit for Elis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELEVEN WILL BE INTACT ENTERING YALE CONTEST | 11/9/1926 | See Source »

Guarnaccia, who was the most seriously damaged, will not be seen in action for at least a week, but has been pronounced fit for the clash with the Blue. Coady, Kilgour, and Bruen will lay off for a few more days but will be available if called on to stop the Brown Bear in the last preiminary game of the season. French, the other man on the doctor's list at the end of the Princeton battle, has recovered more rapidly than expected and will probably be in uniform this afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELEVEN WILL BE INTACT ENTERING YALE CONTEST | 11/9/1926 | See Source »

This organization is, of course, the once world-extensive Communist bureau for promoting subversive movements in Capitalistic lands. At present Joseph Stalin, astute, sagaciously "conservative," has seen fit to squelch such activities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Flame but no Fire | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

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