Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...partition plan: 1) The proposed Jewish State must be reduced from 2,500 square miles to some 400, confined to the Sharon Valley, whose population is about 95% Jewish. 2) The Arab State idea must be abandoned. "Highest British authorities here believe that the Arabs are not yet fit for self-government and that therefore all Palestine outside the proposed Jewish...
...Washington State Federation of Labor that A. F. of L. and C. I. O. might do well to make peace, the better to fight their common enemies. 2) He disclosed that by diet and exercise he has taken off 44 Ib. in three months, has got down to a fit 170, the better to fight his enemies. Encased in heavy pants, rubber vest, rubber coat, two sweaters, he sweats his way around the University of Washington track every morning at 6 o'clock , flexes the Beck muscles on a rowing machine, subjects the Beck posterior to an electric belt...
From sheer whimsicality, the mythical Greek giant Procrustes stretched short men out to fit a long bed. Eight years ago, Los Angeles' Dr. Alvia Brockway decided to try a scientific Procrustean operation on his patients, who, cured of infantile paralysis or tuberculosis of the hip, hobbled about with one leg shorter than the other. Last week he announced in California and Western Medicine that of 75 operations performed in the Orthopaedic Hospital, 90% were successful...
Because she "did not fit into the picture of an educational institution," Fan & Bubble Dancer Sally Rand, who two months ago told Harvard students How to Be Intelligent Though Educated (TIME, May 16), was forbidden by University of Colorado's President George Norlin to deliver a scheduled lecture on "Art and the Workers" at the University's summer school. Snapped Lecturer Rand: "I think it is, in poor taste for President Norlin to use me for publicity purposes for himself. He should hire his own press agent...
...great names. For their productions, thick-spectacled Stage Director Felix Brentano and Conductor Fritz Mahler had chosen young, cooperative U. S. singers, devoid of upstage ideas. Thus equipped they rehearsed their operatic scenes as a conductor rehearses a symphony orchestra, shaped each musical phrase and each dramatic moment to fit, coordinated the action of the characters down to the 'slightest detail. By performance time they had done some 200 hours of solo, group and general rehearsing, far more than the most lavishly financed large-scale opera house could have afforded for a standard production...