Word: fitfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Upperclassmen non-resident in the Houses do not fit into the inter-House athletic program...
...Davis' friends call him "the Democratic Dwight Morrow." His critics complain that he has served Republicans too long to fit into a "new deal." Wealthy, he likes diplomacy for the fun of it. He is as much at home knocking around drafty European conference halls as he is shooting wild turkeys in Tennessee...
...every U. S. citizen who buys a painting or a piece of sculpture, probably 500 buy prints: etchings, engravings, mezzotints, woodcuts. Prints are comparatively inexpensive. Even in a city apartment a portfolio of 100 will fit in a bureau drawer. Because of their fluctuating value they appeal to the trading instinct latent in all collectors. But the appreciation of the graphic arts has this difference from the appreciation of painting: a man may have a sound knowledge of Renaissance painting without knowing the difference between tempera and gesso. But a print collector cannot appreciate what he has in his portfolio...
...only a slight burr, had something new to talk about. For the last two seasons large Hereford breeders of the West, preferring to show at the Los Angeles exhibit, had brought few of their white-faced stock to Chicago. For the last five years Judge Biggar had not seen fit to award a grand prize to a Hereford. And neither he nor his predecessors had ever seen fit to award the prize to any steer from Texas, greatest cattle raising State...
...Council report went on to say that "If the University should see fit to reduce the room rents in the Houses, it should be clearly pointed out that a general reduction of all room prices would not entirely alleviate an undesirable situation now existing in certain of the Houses. For example, the average price of single rooms in Winthrop House is $474 while in Lowell House the average is $350, and the average price in double rooms in Leverett House is $317 as compared to $246 in Dunster House. Such figures show clearly that in making any revision in prices...