Word: fitly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Edward F. Chamberlain, House superintendent since 1947, later explained that the handmade key of hospitality originally fit two of the Kirkland House gates. In 1932 it disappeared, only to be found in 1956 in a New Hampshire pawnshop by a Harvard graduate and key buff who returned it to the House...
...night by smaller vessels trying to steer through the gap between their bow lights and stern lights. They will soon be bigger still. The million-tonner is on the way, close to a third of a mile long and so deep that Notre Dame, Chartres and Reims cathedrals could fit into its tank space with only the towers showing...
...most important is the factor of the individual Harvard player himself. He is no longer the well-conditioned machine that only tried to get to position hoping to intercept a pass or crowd a situation. They are by now individual players who know exactly how they fit into the team--possessing skills promised at the beginning of the season by Ford...
...began to have an idea of my life not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know...I came to the conclusion then that 'continual mindfulness' could certainly not mean that my little conscious self should be entirely responsible for marshalling and arranging all my thoughts, for it simply did not know enough...I began to suspect that thought, which I had always before looked on as a cart horse to be driven, whipped, and plodding between shafts, might be really...
...skillful story, the author endeavors to give the piot a fine little flaw (involving the two women of the adventure). In addition, some of his sentences are disjointed in a profoundly jarring way, as if they have been lifted straight from the canon and scrambled slightly to fit the story here...