Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regeneration. He states his political credo simply: "Germany can be reconstructed on a sound basis only if she declares herself wholeheartedly for the Christian world of the West and all it stands for." In her external relations, Adenauer sees Germany as the eastern bulwark of a free Europe; to fit her into her place he favors a competitive economy based on the principles of "free private initiative and profit-sharing for the worker." He speaks fervently of the mission of Christian democracy, not for Germany alone but for all Europe...
...Science cannot flourish under the domination of a social system," he told an interviewer before leaving for Paris to attend a conference on U.N. research laboratories. "It must be free and not warped to fit an irrelevant plan...To the extent that they are prostituting their, sciences in this direction, the Russians will be the losers." But, he added wistfully, "we shall lose some also, because they are excellent scientists, and they with us could help so much in the great scientific attacks on the ignorance, diseases, and the poverty...
What really hurts is that I've got 48 more weeks left, and between the end of summer session on Aug. 20 and the fall session on Sept. 15, things are going to be a tighter fit than my wedding ring. A month ago I could see $80 coming...
Houses may not be so confining as the shells of scallops, clams and turtles, but neither do they fit, or look, as well. More & more U.S. families, dissatisfied with the shells they live in, are out looking for better ones. In 1948 they bought or built 2.4 million homes. This year prices on new houses are down as much as 10% and business should be almost as good. How good, and how different, will the houses...
Merchant-builders increasingly favor the modern touches-at least on the inside where they won't glaringly show. But the man who wants a house to fit his family as well as the age he lives in still has good reason for building...