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Word: fitfully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...party's one fish and Mr. Roosevelt issued a statement: "His unique specimen, while not the fattest known, excels all I have seen in my long experience. It is, in fact, the Adonis of salmon. Its regular features, its pink complexion and its rippling muscles make it a fit comrade for the General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Farthest North | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...cave near Palmyra. With them would be found a code key, or Urim and Thummim. Four years later, Joe, a giant weighing almost 200, began translating the plates.* He dictated to a schoolteacher named Oliver Cowdery. God, said Joe, had revealed that Cowdery was to put the revelations into fit English. To a prosperous farmer named Harris he transmitted God's revelation that he was to back their publication. (Meanwhile he had convinced a pretty, standoffish girl named Emma that God said she was to marry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Polygamist Epic | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

William Lamb was Caroline's predestined prey. They were married, though not before Caroline, "seized by an unaccountable fit of rage with the officiating bishop, tore her gown and was carried fainting from the room." For three years all went well. Once Caroline was brought in "concealed under a silver dish cover, from which she emerged on the dinner table stark naked. ..." In the mornings William and she read "Newton on the Prophecies with the Bible"; then "Hume with Shakespeare till the dressing bell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Caroline Lamb's Husband | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...Prophet Smith always insisted that Mormon troubles were payment for their sins. He rarely approved armed resistance, since God would or would not protect them as He saw fit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Polygamist Epic | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...milk," said one reporter), and told the press: 1) "I can't say that the X-ray pictures flatter me. One of them looked like a plaster cast of Madam Perkins. I am having them retouched." 2) "Now I have to quit eating anything fit to eat, smoke nothing, drink nothing, and go to bed at 7 p. m. This is calculated to make me live at least five years longer, but what the hell for I don't know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 21, 1939 | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

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