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Word: fitly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gift and another problem. This time, Cancun, Mexico, sent the city a 15-ft. fiber-glass statue of a Maya rain god. The statue was to adorn the city hall grounds, but officials realized that it was too fragile for the extremes of Kansas weather and too tall to fit inside city hall. It now rests in the basement of city hall while authorities search for a new site...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Sister to Sister | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

that officers at a disciplinary camp in Corsica forced prisoners to lick a parade ground clean of dog feces. "Today's legion is different," says one veteran of Algerian days. "Discipline is not what it was. The old ways are no longer acceptable. We are commandos now-exceptionally fit and capable commandos-but we are not the supermen of legend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Foreign Legion Fights Again | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

...central court, which rises through a complex series of levels, bridges, stairways, escalators and ramps to its culmination in the tetrahedronal space frame-skylight. This court is the "rhyme" to the West Building's cupola, but is utterly different in feeling. Here Pei has produced a ceremonial space fit to rank with the main foyer of the Paris Opera or the grandest of the 19th century's glass-and-iron railroad terminals. It projects an encompassing sense of airiness and ebullience, washed by light. From the concourse 80 ft. below, the skylight, a massive and complex structure covering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Masterpieve on the Mall | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

...committee Proposes that this program be limited to the U.S. Congress at first and then expanded to "other branches of the government and public sector as the committee and, the department see fit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Committee Will Advise Government Majors Next Year | 5/19/1978 | See Source »

...will modify the Dream as he grows and changes and learns about his life and himself, and he may even change one dream for another, but the mental picture in his head acts as a sort of psychological carrot. A mentor, an older man who helps the growing adult fit into his society and who aids his development in many ways, may become critical in the phase of Early Adulthood. Besides the obvious functions he serves--integrating the adult into his career, teaching him, giving him a role model, smoothing the way for him, fostering his intellectual and moral development...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: It's Just This Crazy Phase I'm Going Through | 5/17/1978 | See Source »

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