Word: fitfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George Moore is not included in "Prophets and Poets," for he does not fit M. Maurois' definition. He has moulded no generations. He remained aloof from the public, and the public from him. In all probability George Moore will remain, as Spenser has remained a poets' poet, a novelists' novelist...
Emile Dubiel, who had a great chance to win the pole vault, is laid up with an injury. Hall, also, has his ankle strapped up, but considers it fit for active duty...
...Senate, Texas' Tom Connally, who heard President Wilson's War message as a fledgling Representative, reared up and roared: "Some checker-playing, beer-drinking back room of some low house is the only place fit for the kind of language which the Senator from North Dakota puts into the record about a dead man, a great man, a good man. and a man who, when alive, had the courage to meet his enemies face to face. . . . This committee . . . comes back like a ghoul, a historical ghoul, to desecrate the sacred resting place of the honored dead...
Heavy ash skis, made under the supervision of the Department of Commerce, may be procured to fit any type of airplane. The wheels are removed, and the skis are equipped to fit right on the axle. On soft snow, the effect is just the same as that given by the pontoons in a seaplane...
Carter and Loomis have spent a good part of the week skiing and getting physically fit for their exams. They have been using the jump at Berlin, New Hampshire in preparation for this Carnival, and also for the Williams Carnival to be held the following weekend...