Word: fitfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...getting rougher. Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, oldtime race driver who manages the Speedway, says it is smoothing out from yearly traffic. The Automobile Club of Michigan last week called for a change: "Three deaths this year are ample proof. . . . These drivers were fully qualified. Their cars were checked as fit for the grind at high speed. . . . The races should be stopped or the track should be subjected to scientific engineering reconstruction...
...nearly two weeks Matisse stayed in Merion with Dr. Barnes, helped fit his mural to the wall over the three windows that opened on new, green spring in Merion. He admired the pictures by modern Europeans on Dr. Barnes's walls. said nothing of the few U. S. pictures. Last week he went to visit his son Pierre who runs a Manhattan art gallery. Wagging his white British beard, staring out of spectacled grey eyes, he told reporters who wanted his reaction to the Rockefeller-Rivera fight (TIME, May 22), "Art is above politics. . . . No one need look...
Rhodes's Results. Some Oxford men have long regarded Rhodesmen as disagreeable blighters, scarcely fit even for one another's depressing company. Gentler observers reflect that Oxford does not represent all of England. Its young men are mostly of the gentry. And British gentry are alien to youths from big U. S. cities, not to mention those of the U. S. hinterland whence most Rhodes Scholars come. Cecil Rhodes's will provided that Scholars be chosen two from a State, which has sometimes resulted in thinly populated States sending up indifferent candidates. In 1929 Parliament was persuaded...
...comparison with the situation at Dartmouth seems to prove, unfortunately, that Princeton is not a democratic institution. The problem, which goes right to the heart of the American educational system, is whether the public school graduate, generally at a financial and social disadvantage, can fit into the private university that is composed in large part of prep school men. The answer is not that the private college should adept a more rigid policy of exclusion which would thus tend to make it over more undemocratic and snobbish, but that it should make an effect to preserve an intelligently worked...
...right to receive the judgment of the world, of posterity." Said he: "They have no right, this little group of commercial minded people, to assassinate my work and that of my colleagues. They accepted my sketches." He offered to do the whole thing over gratis on any fit Manhattan wall offered...