Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...favor of freedom of speech as anybody, but there is something to the clear and present danger concept. Someday somebody's going to pull a muscle trying to get out of Emerson. The windows of Emerson are too high to afford another entrance, and the University has not seen fit to open the other half of the doors. It's up to the student in the street to solve this problem...
...trial with him was Helen Campbell, a grandmotherly spinster who, as Thomas' chief secretary, had carried out the salary kickback scheme on orders from the boss. Helen Campbell, in a fit of conscience and disgust, turned on Thomas and told what she knew. Columnist Drew Pearson printed the full story, leading the Congressman to his downfall. For her "free, frank and full" confession, Judge Alexander Holtzoff let Miss Campbell go free...
Though men like socks, according to an informal poll, Harvard men are wary of hand-knitted argyle socks: they are too flashy, require luxurious care, usually don't fit and are never adequately reinforced. Unfortunately these vital statistics apparently come too late, as another informal poll showed knitting arglye socks and neckties the chief occupation at Radcliffe...
...Deal. After Roosevelt's death, shrewd, spry Jimmy Byrnes stayed on in Washington, became Harry Truman's first Secretary of State. Last week, Jimmy Byrnes was busy at his newest enthusiasm-heaping hot coals on the Fair Deal as "creeping but ever advancing socialistic programs." Fit as a fiddle at 70, Jimmy Byrnes also provided his own story of the heart attack which precipitated his departure from the Truman Cabinet...
...vicious flies, and as they talked, the star-studded African twilight fell and native drums kept up an insistent rhythm. Being wealthy and intense young New York intellectuals, Kit and Port Moresby glibly fell into lingo so appropriate that Noel Coward might have written it in a fit of melancholia...