Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...convert to Catholicism, I am constantly being faced with this question of tolerance. I hope His Holiness the Pope will see fit to issue a statement . . . clarifying and denying such allegations so that our Protestant friends and enemies may be satisfied and so that Roman Catholics themselves may have something definite to quote in their attempts to combat . . . the harm done by such words...
Next year the Navy plans to build one conventional and one atomic-powered submarine. During the same period, a dozen or more conventional subs will become obsolete and fit only for the scrap heap. Unless the building program is stepped up, submariners will not be able to maintain the force level of 105 active submarines, which the Joint Chiefs of Staff have been counting on in their strategic planning...
Herter's face is boyish, and he looks tanned and fit, but the breakneck pace of his official duties is a special strain because he suffers painfully from arthritis which is slowly stiffening his hips. Twice weekly he submits to the ministrations of a masseuse, and he keeps a bottle of Bufferin handy for use when the pain becomes too intense. The arthritis is degenerative, though cortisone and Terramycin have slowed its progress...
...made out a will leaving his entire estate to his family: his personal effects to his invalid wife, Martha, as well as the income from two trust funds set up from the remainder of the estate-the first (49%) to be disposed of at her death as she sees fit, the second (51%) to be divided among the four Taft sons...
...chamber in a direct line. A centrifugal-flow jet draws in the air with fewer but larger blades, and throws the air out around the circumference of the compressor on its way to the combustion chamber. Since an axial-flow engine has a smaller diameter, it is easier to fit into planes...