Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston, Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, St. Louis, Washington, New York and Los Angeles, worth $67 million. Having already built four of the seven major U.S. hotels put up in the last 25 years, the chain is working on two more: a 455-room, $7,000,000 Statler tailored to fit medium-size Hartford, Conn.; a 1,000-room, $15 million Statler for booming Dallas...
...this summer, you may be interested to know that your copy of TIME will cost seven escudos in Portugal, ten piastres in Egypt, 100 fils in Iraq. Business Manager David Ryus has been telling me some fascinating facts about how these currencies and others like kurus, dinars and pyas fit into the day-today operations of TIME'S International Editions. "We have a market for our magazine in 180 different countries," Ryus explained. "We sell TIME for kroner, drachmai, rials-about 120 currencies all told. Two of the newest mediums of exchange are the rupiah of Indonesia...
...clerk-typist who trots dutifully to her museum job every morning and dutifully back to her brandy-swigging guardian, Aunt Morgen, every night. She has the looks and manners of a mouse, the brains of a flea and a fondness for cocoa ("Miserable puny stuff," snorts Aunt Morgen, "fit for kittens and unwashed boys"). Backaches and migraine headaches pin Elizabeth to her bed every so often, and Aunt Morgen is solicitous until she finds the girl sneaking out of the house in the small hours. Accused of a secret romance or worse, Elizabeth draws a blank and claims to know...
...influential, it is also precarious. That the words "academic freedom" and "free inquiry" are in many quarters regarded as little more than cliches is evidence of this split status. The pressure is to conform, but it is only too plain that a Russian Research Center report slanted to fit the views of a particular political party is more than worthless-it becomes a positive danger. And when a natural scientist finds that his fitness is estimated by the degree of enthusiasm he shows for a project, the national interest will suffer from the enforced conformity of his fellow scientists...
Although Dunham, according to Sawyer, "quit the Communist around 1946," in 1947 he wrote a book, "Man Against Myth-an analysis of social superstitions," which the New York' Times Book Review called a distortion of "history to fit the Procrustean bed of his Marxist convictions...