Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year he had no pencil, whiled away the time working out mathematical problems mentally. "If I didn't," explained Dean, "I felt I would lose my wits." For a time he had a Chinese checkerboard, but when his guards kibitzed too much, he broke the board in a fit of anger...
...death. The early evidence for this, also, is no more than "hints," for Christian writers did not begin mentioning Peter's Roman martyrdom until the second and third centuries. But the hints are important ones, e.g., in all the church controversies of the early centuries, no one saw fit to deny Peter's Roman martyrdom. As Cullmann observes: "Were we to demand for all facts of ancient history a greater degree of probability, we should have to strike from our history books a large proportion of their contents...
Most of the gifts are small to provide for easy carrying in the corner of your suitcase. Prices are wide in range, providing tasteful suggestions to fit any wallet and money clip. These are only a few of the gifts the editors have chosen. Others will appear in three subsequent gift pages before vacation begins for those who still forgot to pick up little something for Aunt Clara...
Then remembering New England industry, he insisted that lectures consist also of the practical sciences, physics, chemistry, botany, zoology, geology, and mineralogy. His thought has been perfectly followed in a course given at M.I.T. designed "for young men in industrial pursuits who desire to fit themselves for higher positions...
...other business endeavors, it is imagination, pluck and thinking in big terms that spell success. This is the American way, and it is right. But in a system of free enterprise there should always be room at the bottom for the little fellow who is neither mentally nor morally fit to compete with the big boys. And on behalf of the tin-horn punk, friends of small business look with uneasiness upon recent developments in the world of crime...