Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Kefauver's campaign manager, F. (for Florence) Joseph ("Jiggs") Donohue, came the snubbing reply: the Senator just couldn't fit...
...jewels. "Don't worry, lady," an American Express escort reassured her, "You take the train and we'll find the jewels." The agent headed unerringly for the woman's hotel room, found the rings and bracelets under her pillow, set them by messenger to the ship. FITs for VIPs. The company's most pleasant labor is compiling FITs. i.e., "Foreign Independent Tours." For travelers who want to be free of details, supervision and money worries-which is FITs-the company handles an average of 1,100 trips a month. The customer can theoretically leave his money...
Ever since the story of medicine began to move from obscure technical journals into the popular press, doctors and newsmen have clashed over what medical news was fit to print. As a result, the feud has often broken out in a rash of errors and ill feeling. To clear up the sore spots between physicians and reporters, Dr. Francis T. Hodges, a general practitioner who also edits the California-Western Academy Monthly, wrote out a prescription in the current issue...
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...military mustache created an impression of dynamic motion even when the major himself was at ease. Alone his glorious mustache would have been enough to command the respect of the stoniest of Mayfair's headwaiters. But added to the mustache were such other facts as the fit of the Savile Row suits, which clung to his lithe frame with the easy perfection of a snakeskin, and the verve with which he followed hounds with the Cornwall Hunt...