Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists of the futility of seeking their ends through aggression." Military Policy. Carefully pointing out that the U.S. is not placing "undue reliance on one weapon or preparation for only one kind of warfare," the President nevertheless made clear that the U.S. must adjust its military strength to fit the most powerful weapons available (TIME, Jan. 10). Said he: "The forthcoming military budget therefore emphasizes modern air power in the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps and increases the emphasis on new weapons, especially those of rapid and destructive striking power." Obviously aware that his military program will be bombed...
...lifelong Cooper fan who played make-believe Deerslayer as an Illinois farmboy, Nevins has taken the five Leatherstocking tales-The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers and The Prairie-shorn away the interminable love passages and faded humor, deftly stitched the rest together to fit into one handsome volume. Modern readers may smile at some of Cooper's dialogue, written in the days before Mark Twain cleared the air ("Manifest no distrust," says their escort to two beautiful girls wandering through Indian-infested forests, "or you may invite the danger you appear to apprehend"). Cooper...
...also difficult to fit the married man into Dudley or University activities. For the large majority of the 40 married commuters attached to Dudley did not have previous residence in one of the houses. To enhance the prestige of Dudley and bring the married men closer together, one Alumni suggestion is to require all married students to use Dudley facilities, rather than let them become "courtesy non-residents" of the houses. Though the idea may be sound, the students moving out of the houses simply don't want what they consider "the low prestige, and the second rate common room...
Pusey continued by saying that when the important developments in athletics occurred before World War I, the undergraduates and alumni were left to manage things as they saw fit, often with disastrous results. Lately, however, Pusey said, there has been a movement to bring athletics under the direct control of the faculty...
...property on the public school list, found no such place as Marlborough at Mill Hill. After telephoning Christopher's father, he also found that the boy had no uncle and no inheritance. Last week, as Headmaster Miller good-naturedly tried to decide what sort of punishment would fit Christopher's crime ("He broke every rule. But it was all so diabolically clever"), London's newspapers were having a field day. "What a corker!" cried the Daily Express. "Boy's Hoax Takes in All the School," said the Daily Sketch. "Even Hoaxes the Head," added the News...