Word: fitness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...mental age of an average adult gypsy is thought to be about that of a child of ten. Gypsies have never accomplished anything of great significance in writing, painting, musical composition, science or social organization . . . Society has always found the gypsies an ethnic puzzle and has tried ceaselessly to fit them, by force or fraud, piety or policy, coaxing or cruelty, into some framework of its own conception, but so far without success...
...ever made an authoritative estimate of the mental age of Big Joe Uwanawich, a high-caste Serbian gypsy who lives at 174 Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y. There is, however, no question but that Big Joe has been highly successful in evading all attempts to fit him into a social framework. A lifelong man of leisure -many gypsies let their wives earn the family living-Big Joe claims to have been arrested some 100 times during his 70 years, but has never been known to have spent any time in jail, at least not in New York...
Long before businessmen were accepted as fit heroes for novels, TIME and Editor Purtell, a Milwaukee and Detroit newsman before he joined us in 1942. knew that businessmen could be as exciting and interesting as even the most bohemian artists. Once, at a party for a group of artists and musicians, Joe found himself to be the center of attention. Later his wife asked: "What on earth did you talk about that interested them so much?" Purtell grinned...
...Grayleaf, the father, is a baker, as busy and happy as all the seven dwarfs. Homespun Ave has the American flag tattooed on his right arm and a bad case of the verbal staggers: "If I don't rockabye now I'll be fit for naught but the ravens in the dawn." Mama is as p'ain as an apron and just as happily inoffensive. As the growing apple on the Grayleaf tree, eleven-year-old Tone is sprayed with the customary disinfecting bromides...
...unfortunate that Dean Griswold has seen fit to suggest restrictions against those applicants to the Law School who have had a "specialized" training. As a graduate of a state university with a degree in Urban Land Economics--and what could be more specialized--I feel I must be within the group mentioned. The goal desired by Dean Griswold, that of "cultured" lawyers, is a laudable one, but the means by which he hopes to attain this goal is at least questionable from three standpoints...