Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...widest and freest exercise of his own judgment. The investigating court or committee or organization should clearly and specifically be legally authorized to make its inquires. Its motives must be ostensibly impartial and objective. Quite obviously, Harvard's own most important case--that of Professor Furry--does not fit such specifications. McCarthy committee's authorization to ask the questions Furry refused to answer Carthy committee's authorization to ask the question Furry refused to answer will soon be debated in court. The Senator's motives--possibly guided by personal enmity toward the University and publicity-seeking--are also highly questionable...
...surgery in a Chinese hospital, now has a plate in his shortened leg, and probably will need further surgery. Lieut. Parks had an eye ailment; Captain Fischer needed dental work. But in general, all four were in good health. The clothes that had. been bought from, pre-prison measurements fit fairly well...
...splendor of Etruria, the largest collection of Etruscan art ever assembled was on exhibit last week in Milan's Royal Palace. Sixteen rooms were needed to show 422 pieces dating from the 8th to the ist century B.C. They were drawn from 43 museums and private collections. They fit together into a fresh and fascinating picture of a civilization which, Roman Historian Livy wrote, "filled not only the earth but also the sea for the whole length of Italy, from the Alps to the Straits of Messina...
...Chocolate Soldier was Du Pont's 20th spectacular of the season. This time he had ten days, instead of the more usual five, to dress the entire company for the Oscar Straus operetta, starring Risë Stevens. That meant he had to create about 100 individual designs and fit about 600 costumes for the show. He also had to keep in mind that he was working for both color and black and white (if he uses the wrong shade, the heroine's face might turn green in certain lights...
...University Librarian announced that every effort was being made to obtain duplicate copies of books assigned for the Reading Period, and expressed the hope that most undergraduates would see fit to study in their rooms and to choose books that weren't in great demand. But he could only hope; there was no telling what 3,500 students were going...