Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Experts belittled him, said that he could not have exported Carrara marble from Italy at the time he claimed. Cremonese said he could show pieces of the eye he had chipped off. But Farmer Gonon would not let him try to fit the missing pieces to his Venus. Cremonese said he would produce the model, then had trouble remembering her name; it was Anna Something. Anna Strudinka, Polish waitress in a night club, turned up, announced she had been the model, permitted her neck to be measured (it coincided with the neck of the figure) but refused...
...Both were alarmed at the sharpness with which Franklin Roosevelt-and U. S. public opinion-has slapped at Dictators Hitler and Mussolini, and by implication has frowned upon Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's policy of "appeasing" Fascism. Instead of being told that they should revamp their views to fit Washington's, they persuaded the President to leave foreign policy out of his Chapel Hill speech (TIME, Dec. 12), and further to soften his democratic dander last week...
...Advance's 26, was shorter-legged, closer to the ground, more nearly a perfect elongated cube, typified the ideal animal that breeders, packers and consumers have been dreaming toward. Weighing 300 Ib.less than Advance, Mercer was a far more economical animal, because he provided cuts to fit the shrinking U. S. oven yet allowed no wastage, achieved maturity in materially less time, could be turned into cash before he ate up his future profits. His broad, deep body, straight back and thick coverings of high-priced meat were the answer to a breeder's prayer...
...pamphleteer ruled out the expedients of building another House, curtailing the student body to fit accommodations, or "allowing the outhousers, in the meantime, the use of our dining-halls and libraries--for the first two are too wild and desperate to be considered, and the third would compromise the dignity of the House system...
When proper Sir Archibald arrived at Shanghai he would say no more than that he had found Chiang "well-very fit and optimistic-serenely confident of ultimate victory." What he did not say-and what officials in China's new capital at Chung-king did say-was that the fit Generalissimo had just talked to the proper Ambassador more plainly than any big Chinese had ever talked to a big Britisher...