Word: fitfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard has been beaten but five times in its 31 encounters, in the last three years bowing only to Yale, and this year's team is a fit successor to that led by Esty Stowell, captain of yesterday, year and intercollegiate backstroke champion...
...would show terraces; alternations of tilled land and grasslands; new forests springing up in belts and patches. ... It would show ... the scientific uses of all the land in the Valley, determined after long studies of soils and climatic conditions. No farmer would be trying to grow corn on land fit only for timber, or wheat on land best fitted for grazing, or anything at all on land best fitted for recreation and the preservation of wild life...
...champion sabre-rattler and No. 1 Militarist, but Japanese like to point out in his favor that he is personally frail-looking, mild-mannered, small, ascetic, "a mystic." Araki himself reconciles these contradictions in his character with his favorite maxim, "Be greedy only in mind." To keep fit he put in 20 minutes a day bastinadoing a dummy with a bamboo sword, until influenza laid him low last winter and politicians forced his resignation as War Minister. When he was ill, Japanese teachers collected sen from their schoolchildren to buy Araki medicine. Last week he was fit again, beating...
...President Roosevelt, argued that exposure of the body might be willful without being lewd. Said Justice Kernochan: "I don't feel that the law at present, enacted a number of years ago, is sufficiently broad enough to render a conviction. It is possible, should the Legislature see fit, to stop this practice [of nudism] and I think it should...
...Harlow should not be condemned without a hearing. Perhaps the mere recitation of his coaching career does not tell the correct story. Perhaps too Mr. Bingham will see fit to exert enough control over football to stem the criticism that he believes the due of an institution which fosters a program of "going out and getting them." In any event, the final opinion as to whether Harvard has really gone "big-time" cannot correctly be made until the new regime takes over the reins...