Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week old John was fit to be tied. He reached for his pen and served Island Creek's Francis with an ultimatum: ". . . In your mad and vengeful attack on the existence of the fund, you have rightfully calculated that you are bleeding it white ... A continuation of your policy of default and smash may cause reactions deterrent to the constructive progress of the industry. Will you or will you not remit?" Lewis rumbled...
...trial was held in the gaily decorated, red marble assembly hall of the metalworkers' union, in which Rajk a matter of months ago used to appear with Rakosi to deliver political speeches. Rajk had been in jail since his arrest in June, but he looked fit. Avidly, he piled self-accusation upon self-accusation...
...operator pushes buttons alongside the standard typewriter keyboard of the desk-size machine to select the desired type size and style, types the line, corrects any mistakes. Then, by a combination of an electronic memory and an electric eye, the machine automatically "justifies" the line, i.e., spaces it to fit flush in the column, and transfers it to a film on a rotating drum. At six letters a second, it can set twelve newspaper lines a minute, three times average linotype speed. Automatically developed, the film is ready for photoengraving...
Closed Deal. In Oklahoma City, Mrs. Bessie Ledick told the court that when she offered to sell a set of false teeth to Fred E. Humphrey, he tried them on for size, seemed satisfied with the fit, but refuses either to return them...
Pensions & Profits. To many businessmen it looked as if steel had botched the job. Said Barren's Business & Financial Weekly: "Unfortunately . . . few steelmen have seen fit to use rational arguments in presenting their case ... It would be amazing if [the fact finders] did not develop the strongest possible resentment against the steel companies." Actually, to anyone who read all the arguments, the steelmen had built up a good case, answering the union point by point...