Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statement reads: "There is no doubt in my mind that many men both undergraduate and graduate students of the University, would profit by participation in one or more types of extra-curricular activity. Such activities may form a substantial part of the whole educational procedure, since they help to fit men to live in the world...
...guys sure go to town with your magazine. . . . If enough people could be induced to read TIME, this cockeyed world would get to be a fit place for civilized people to live in, some day, maybe...
Died. Ala'idin Sulaiman Shah, 74, Sultan of Selangor, third largest of the Federated Malay States; in Klang, Selangor. Some years ago the Sultan and the British agreed that his first son was not fit to succeed him. Two years ago the Sultan journeyed to London to persuade the Colonial Office that his second son should succeed. That trip was in vain: the British insisted on his third son, Cambridge-educated Tungku Laxaman...
Although he feels "fit as can be," Producer Daniel Frohman, 86, wrote his own obituary, listing his achievements in 64 years of show business, sent the story to all Manhattan newspapers. Said he: "I might be run down by an auto, you know...
...length in the direction of motion is shortened, that its mass is increased. The increased mass must be due to energy of motion; therefore energy and mass are the same. Light, which is energy, must be influenced by gravitational fields. All these pieces of the Theory of Relativity fit into place as neatly as the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. The completed puzzle is a coherent picture of the universe which has stood up under the test of numerous experiments...