Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bring in a real endowment. If anybody doesn't have a million dollars but would like to put a smaller sum to good use, perhaps they'd like to endow the library or the chair of English literature. We'd be happy to make the namesake fit their pocketbook...
...very pleased to get Steve," Coach Valpey said last night. "He has been teaching the single wing and I'm sure he'll fit in nicely with the system we installed here last fall." Valpey added his new assistant will arrive here in time for the opening of spring practice next Monday...
Only the radio commentators, fearful of the rule in the 1934 Communications Act against profanity, worked hard to keep their language more sedate than the President's. Newspapers, including the New York Times ("All the News That's Fit to Print") boldly printed the initials "S.O.B." in headlines. A phrase long taboo in newspapers had been given a kind of sanction by passing through the President's mouth; S.O.B. had become editorial S.O.P...
Between numbers, in a Los Angeles cafe called Omar's Dome, a Negro pianist mused over his keyboard. A phrase had strayed into his mind, and he was trying to fit a melody to it. Suddenly, "it came to me just as straight as could be." Pianist Harvey O. Brooks hummed his tune all the way home, wrote it out in 20 minutes. Then he put it away in a drawer...
Actually, the competition for earning a basketball scholarship at Kentucky is pretty stiff. Each spring and summer (basketball is a year-round proposition at Kentucky), as many as some 200 eager candidates dribble in to work out with the varsity. Rupp selects about a dozen who fit his requirements as the "cool pro type." They get board, room, tuition, dry cleaning, laundry, books; $10-a-month spending money and rigid Rupp discipline. Boss Rupp, who wears brown suits because he thinks they bring good luck, is even fussy about his players having dates...