Word: fitfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unwise," pontifically observed a hotel proprietor. "We Filipinos are not fit for it yet, having enough trouble...
They want evaluation, so that the facts will fit together and mean something." Contrary to popular notion, neither Kiplinger nor any other reputable letter service deals in "confidential" information because very little confidential information is available. Kiplinger employs nine full-time staff men who have found that the wisest men in Washington on legislative prospects and administrative policies are lobbyists. They scrupulously canvass the most potent spokesmen on both sides, take time to gauge the political force behind each, check it, make their forecasts. Editor Kiplinger keeps score on right & wrong guesses, computes his staff's average 85% right...
...been nearly a year a-brewing, Dr. Howard Dixon Mclntyre, 41, Cincinnati neurologist, announced to the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine last week his observance of an entirely new type of encephalitis (sleeping sickness) which is currently epidemic in the Middle West. The new encephalitis, he reported, refused to fit into any of the categories of the disease already known, exhibited startling phases which he advised should force medical men to intensify their research into a disease about whose cause they know nothing certain...
...autumn, its matriculants were the largest in number, the ablest in mind ever accepted. Princeton could very well maintain its standards as they are and still keep its classes up to the prescribed limit. But liberalism is increasing in the secondary schools; work is being done which does not fit in with ordinary college entrance requirements. Last week the Princeton board of trustees directed that the admission requirements for Princeton be revised. Henceforth, instead of being obliged to present 15 units of credit (each representing one year's work in one subject), a student may present 12, plus credit...
...wound and entwined himself in the Hemingway toils that he is unable to escape. Further, he assumes that all the young readers of Mr. Hemingway have done the same, an idea, fortunately, somewhat fallacious. Many may regard the author of "Death in the Afternoon", as a fit subject for Thurber's wit; few conceive of him as worthy the emulation due the object of a popular "hero-myth...