Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Robert E. Lee had just won a great victory at Fredericksburg when Cornelius McGillicuddy was born at East Brookfield, Mass, on Dec. 23, 1862. Soon after President Garfield was assassinated on July 2, 1881, Cornelius was beginning to be called Connie Mack, a name that fit handily into a baseball box score. Young Connie was a catcher-one of the young game's best. He was in Pittsburgh as manager of the Pirates when Coxey's Army marched on Washington in 1894; he was manager of Milwaukee in the Western League when Dewey took Manila...
...Jeweler's Touch. On the century series production lines, workers need a jeweler's touch to fit parts within supersonic tolerances. A single, one-in. hole in a wing can slow a modern jet by as much as 100 m.p.h. And such skilled manpower is hard to find. Though McDonnell has 14,000 workers at its St. Louis plants, it is still desperately short of skilled manpower. Last week, with new F101 orders coming in, McDonnell sent out calls for another 1,000 engineers...
Students of the period note that first century authors--Pliny the Elder, Philo and Jesephus,--describe the Essenes in terms which well fit the Qumran community. Archeologists believe that the settlement was the center of Essene life. The people probably lived communally while establishing their great library, and apparently washed, or were baptized daily, as evidenced by many aquaducts and a lavatory which were unearthed in the excavation. Their leader was a prophet, "The Teacher of Righteousness...
Despite yesterday's medical announcement that President Eisenhower is physically fit for a second term in the White House, most members of the University's Government department contacted last night refused to commit themselves on the possibility of his running for reelection...
Revival of the Fittest. In Paris, Leon Sellier, in a fit of pique, flung his girl friend out his fourth-floor apartment window, landed in the hospital with cuts and bruises after she bounced off a canvas awning, ran back upstairs, cracked him on the head with a wine bottle...