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Word: fitly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dietitian and holder of a master's degree in biochemistry, Davis contended that improper diet is the cause of a broad gamut of diseases as well as such social afflictions as crime, mental illness and drug abuse. In four bestselling volumes (Let's Eat Right to Keep Fit, et al.), she urged readers to shun refined grains and packaged foods, eat organically grown fruits and vegetables, unprocessed cheese and fertilized eggs, and take large doses of vitamins as a chaser. She came under fire from scientific critics who often agreed with her nutritional dicta but felt she oversimplified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 10, 1974 | 6/10/1974 | See Source »

Opposition to the library ranges from the argument that the design would not fit into the surroundings to the potential problems caused by the necessary parking accomodations for its visitors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pei Readies Plans for Friday | 6/3/1974 | See Source »

...question remains whether tennis is really fit as a game to draw the raucous crowds of the big American arenas. Tennis's real lure seems to be on precisely that silent psychological level where an arched brow can be the crucial straw of dominance. In its best moments, tennis is like a difficult passage of music. If the audience is very quiet, it can hear the players thinking...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: The Lobsters' Game | 5/31/1974 | See Source »

Perhaps the most annoying on-the-job irritant women officers faced: hostility from male officers. Patrolmen persisted in the belief that women officers were not fit partners for them, while patrolwomen more modestly concluded that under most circumstances they were as good as but no better than men. Yet under stress there may well have been a female advantage. Noted one policewoman wryly: "A lot of times a female officer is not only able to be cool, calm and persuasive with the disorderly; she can also help to do the same with her male partner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Arresting Preconceptions | 5/27/1974 | See Source »

Each plant must design and institute an abatement and surveillance program tailored to fit its specific contamination problems. The choice for these plants is either to protect their workers or close down...

Author: By John G. Freund and Eric B. Rothenberg, S | Title: The Asbestos Labyrinth | 5/22/1974 | See Source »

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