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Word: fitness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month still remains before the four-mile stint against Yale on June 25, but that time will definitely not be so easy for the oarsmen. As if practicing for the longest race in American rowing were not enough to worry about, the squad must also fit in practice for the 2000 meter Olympic trials the following week...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Crimson Sports | 5/27/1948 | See Source »

...student's case. What would be emphasized in the utopian program as tutorial's own goal is coordination of all the student's scattered courses and reading into a pattern leading somewhere in his own academic field. To help the undergraduate think about where he is heading intellectually, to fit the courses he takes in his field of concentration into a larger idea of the field--these objects only tutorial can achieve...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The College Scene | 5/25/1948 | See Source »

...Wild Adventures." Abdullah's reins would likely pull him up short of that grand design. But few supposed that he would peaceably give up the Arab parts of Palestine. That might, indeed, fit British hopes for the Middle East: they need a secure corridor from the Mediterranean (probable outlet: Gaza) through friendly Hashimite kingdoms to the oil and bases of Iraq. As long as they hold Abdullah's purse strings, they will try to hold Abdullah to this more modest plan. Said a British official in Amman last week: "The Legion will be very prudent. We want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Reluctant Dragon | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...protocol. No, don't call him president, he said; he wouldn't actually take over as president of Columbia until June 7. Congress had made him a general for life, Ike added, but just call him mister. ("Nobody has so far. Maybe it doesn't fit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Freshman | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...Jockey Club Gold Cup ?exactly the same way. But he isn't always the best rider on every horse. One very good one that he can't ride is Stymie, greatest of the money-earners (with $823,560). He once rode Stymie, whom he says he doesn't "fit," admitted that he must have looked like Ned the Coachman coming down the stretch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover: Man on a Horse | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

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