Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foolish editor in search of a feature suggested me as Vice President and sent a young woman to ask me about it. I scouted the whole idea as ridiculous and said I objected to belittling women in politics by such proposals. Asked if I did not think I was fitted to be Vice President, I said, 'No,' and that nothing is worse than for a person to be in a position for which he is not fit. Asked if I did not think I was as fit as Senator Curtis, I said I did not think...
...display them to visitors or eat them at pleasure. He kept his semiweekly office hours in the high school library at Superior, and made one unscheduled trip on which Mrs. Coolidge accompanied him. She sat quietly at the window while he signed some papers. She, too, was feeling altogether fit once more...
...only be called epochal. For two milleniums and more, Emperors, Kings, men and freight have gone around the Pyrenees. Now at last the railroad has climbed and pierced through. Roadways wind interminably up the Pyrenees and over passes, none lower than 5,000 feet; but these trails are more fit for mountain goats than motorcycles and quite impracticable for the average motor car or truck. The late Emperor of the French, Napoleon...
...Clark, president of Midwest Refining Co. of Denver, Col., director of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, vice president of Pan-American Eastern Petroleum Co., announced that he would desert his business to take a post graduate course at Johns Hopkins University in law and economic research in order to fit himself for a permanent position in the profession of teaching...
...BACHELOR FATHER-June Walker making bastardy a fit subject for drawing-room conversation (TIME, March...