Word: fitfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...real sense of the word, having a hand in shaping the early training and planning the programs of thousands of students, and not depending solely on his ability to teach in his own specialized field to make his influence felt on the generations that come to college to fit themselves to life in the modern world. An assistant dean holds a magnificent position of opportunity and trust...
...rigorously controlled, long-continued experiments at Duke University of Psychologist Joseph Banks Rhine (TIME, Dec. 10, 1934). Lately Dr. Rhine has felt the need of a word of wider scope to designate not only telepathy and clairvoyance but any other "unusual capacities of mind that do not fit into the recognized order of things." He chose the word parapsychology, an importation from the German...
...garage, Robert (the "I" of the story) and Gottfried work as mechanics; all share and share alike. But repair jobs are few, and it is always a question how long they can keep going. Otto's prize possession is a rattletrap car they call Karl, which looks only fit for the junk-pile but is actually a tenderly groomed greyhound of the road. Besides drinking, their favorite sport is to cruise along in Karl till they find a swank car, then lure it into a race...
Author Chevallier's moral: Clochemerle 1923 is barely fit to drink...
...reports of the proposed Peace Strike, a regrettable confusion has appeared between the news and the editorial columns of the "Crimson." In a recent news story, you saw fit to describe the Peace Strike as a phenomenon of the restlessness of spring. And yesterday's editorial, "Peace Strike--Or Agitation," contained not only your legitimate if prejudiced opinion, but seriously inaccurate news-reporting, the only news-reporting of this event in the issue...