Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...word that doesn't fit in that grouping is "liken," an Anglo-Saxon derivative. All the others . . . are formed from Latin roots...
When officials asked her to play a semifinal match on a side court, Patricia had a fit of sulks. The more she thought about it, the madder she got. Said she: "I told the committee I would play only on the center court. I'm the defending champion and I don't see why I can't play on the center court . . ." Just to show them, Pat flounced out of the stadium. France's Mme. Nell Landry promptly claimed and got a victory by forfeit...
...calculator pairs the measurements with the one suit (out of 500 choices) which most nearly matches them, then automatically calculates the way the suit should be changed at the factory to make that standard suit fit the individual measurements. (Some 500 Manhattan bigwigs, who got "trial-run" PhotoMetric suits, reported excellent fits...
...that the clothing industry was plodding along with the same horse-&-buggy techniques of 50 years ago." The tradition of the industry forced retailers of ready-made suits to keep big inventories to supply only a small range of materials and sizes. In addition, alterations for the hard-to-fit customer cost retailers 6% of their gross. Why not work out a method to eliminate alterations? To Booth the answer was photography-in effect, an application of the Bertillon system. He took the idea to Eastman Kodak Co., which developed the PhotoMetric camera, which anyone can operate...
...Fit to Print. The New York Times dutifully reported: Henry Wallace, in California . . . "commented on the failure of newspapers generally to print his 'open letter' to Premier Stalin. Mr. Wallace said: 'Almost painfully, I must give credit to the New York Times as the only newspaper that printed my letter in full. You can find almost anything in the New York Times if you look between pages ten and 17.' " Added the Times: the story "started, on Page i and was continued, with the text of the letter, on Page...