Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...California, and I wish your advice on a very curious phenomenon. All the states of this country and the provinces of Canada require two tags, one in front and one in the rear, and both exactly alike.* However, three states, Arkansas, Texas and Tennessee, at various time, have seen fit to require the word "front" on the front license, and "rear" on the rear one.† It occurred to me in this connection that these States have passed laws banning the teaching of the theory of organic evolution in state-aided schools. Will you kindly get your staff of psychologists...
...second team got a chance to show its ability in the next week's encounter against Lehigh, and, once started, did so with a vengeance. The lighter Pennsylvania out fit, though game to the end, was no match for Horween's men and bowed under an avalanche of touchdowns...
Writing of choosing the new Cabinet in Forward, British Labor weekly, Ramsay MacDonald said: "Then will come the unhappy days when for the merit I should like to reward I can find no places vacant, for all those I can fit in I cannot always find the appropriate place. May I be judged sympathetically...
...dugout. The Front cages us in. The barrage gets heavier. An attack must be coming. Shells howl, flash, bang. Our own hands tremble but we must watch the new recruits. They are mere children with narrow shoulders, so terrified they cannot control their bowels. One of them has a fit, runs outside. Result: the trench gets plastered with lumps of flesh, bits of uniform...
...educational work. Those chosen to follow the plan will not pay tuition, will not attend classes if they do not wish to attend, and will not be required to take any examinations. In short they will be allowed to follow the intellectual life at Dartmouth as they see fit. This would be the ideal in education, but unfortunately few students would be strong enough to follow that plan and get anything from their university life other than a good time...