Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...easy for the newcomer to fit into Adams' scheme of things. This House has the asset--if you consider it such--of being the most relaxed and un-self-conscious of all seven. It has to be. Within its nine entries are contained the representatives of almost every varsity of thinker, political and otherwise, in the country...
When the House was in its blueprint stages, the late President Lowell sat down with University architects Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch, and Abbot, told them he wanted the windows built in the pattern they now occupy, and he left the hapless four to fit the rooms to the window design. This accounts for Lowell's small, irregular rooms...
Vacationing King Gustaf V of Sweden, 89, arrived on the French Riviera all-of-a-piece, pooh-poohed rumors that he had died en route from Stockholm, declared: "I have never been so fit. Despite [my doctor] I shall watch all the tennis tournaments...
...this moment here in Milan; it will go through the Italian cities, villages and regions, then to the outside world and to the end of time. . . . There will be angels in Heaven for all eternity because of this moment. . . . For five centuries men have tried to make the world fit for heroes. The result is that angry individualism and angry collectivism stand growling at each other. ... A generation of dwarfs is looking to the atom bomb and V-bombs that may destroy all humanity...
...Fawzi has been chief drawing card for recruits. Every peasant and Bedouin knows his name. He likes to dress dramatically, to fit his dramatic legend. His favorite . garments: a fleece-lined flying jacket, or long sheep-lined cape draped over his shoulders. After his escape from France last year (TIME, March 10, 1947), crowds often appeared before the Orient Palace Hotel in Damascus, and clamored to see him. He began every speech with the words: "I am not a man of words; I am a man of action." The crowd loved...