Word: fitfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jumped out with my knife to put the wounded deer out of misery* and called to Berggreen to come and help me. In a fit of rage he swung his big knife and said he was going to kill me first. I was too frightened to report the case...
...visit of the young men should give them a definite concept toward which their school work is tending. So far entrance examinations have not proved an adequate incentive to preparation which will place the prospective freshmen in a position to fit in directly with a higher system of learning. The best result which the conference could achieve would be to send the delegates back with a more mature outlook toward problems which they will be expected to face in the next four years...
...last decided they could come nowhere near unanimity on any fundamental "Conclusion" or "Recommendation." except one. That one was: IF & when it is decided to alter Prohibition, let the word "regulate" be inserted in. the 18th Amendment, so that Congress can from time to time alter Prohibition to fit changing conditions. Having voiced that suggestion, and in the absence of a positive agreement having (all except Commissioner Lemann) signed their negative list of "Conclusions & Recommendations," the Commissioners sought to preserve their self-respect by appending to the joint Report their separate, personal opinions and convictions...
Because influenza this year is of a mild type which has not often caused pneumonia,* the health men are not greatly concerned. Nonetheless, Surgeon General Hugh Smith Gumming of the U. S. Public Health Service saw fit to advise the public last week on how to guard themselves. His gist: "Go home and go to bed. . . . Call the doctor . . . remain in bed; eat a simple diet; take plenty of fluids such as water, fruit juices, milk, bouillon and hot soups at frequent intervals. . . . Do not take any so-called cure. There is no specific cure...
...Detroit, Mich., Frank Kurtz, 72, read Schopenhauer on women, then vituperated and chased about the house Mrs. Frank Kurtz, 57. Said she in court: Schopenhauer was no fit reading for a 72-year-old husband. Said he: "There are as many ways to the heart of a woman as there are women in the world...