Word: fitfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...build over the next five years three or four million housing units, which at a moderate estimate of $4,000 per unit would mean spending from twelve to 16 billion dollars, without creating a surplus of housing accommodations, and consequently without impairing the value of existing housing that is fit for decent human occupancy...
Wool tops are wool that has gone through certain processes-sorting, scouring, carding, gilling and combing-which fit it for manufacture into textiles. After combing, short wool fibres are made into certain types of coating, cheviots, shetlands. cashmeres. Long fibres, or wool tops, go into making worsteds, which comprise about half of wool production.* Since wool tops are wool that has been considerably processed, it seems logical to the uninitiated that wool tops should cost more than raw wool. Yet wool tops for future delivery are now selling for from 5? to 10? a lb. less than raw wool...
...have not proved eminently successful in the past. The two chief schools at present, at Columbia and Missouri, doubtless produce capable men, but there is some question as to whether such men are sought after for newspaper jobs. Editors, it seems, still like to train their own men to fit their peculiar standards. For these two reasons, lack of proper finances and the questionable success of similar ventures, a Graduate School of Journalism does not seem to be the answer to Harvard's problem...
Sitting on a hosiery patent infringement suit, Bachelor-Associate Justice James Clark McReynolds asked: "What does 'full-fashioned' mean?" Answered Benedict-Associate Justice Owen Josephus Roberts: "It means that a stocking is made to fit the contours...
...laboratory. In fact, some things are made use of even before they are discovered - e.g., the little uncharged particle called the neutrino which atomic physicists need in their calculations but which has never yet come to light experimentally. Quite different are unexpected and sometimes unwelcome discoveries* which do not fit into any preconceived picture and further complicate the problems with which scientists struggle. Such a thing is a new particle of matter, which as yet has no name except "X-particle...