Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great painters of all time was a somber-minded Fleming named Hieronymus Bosch, who lived in 15th century Burgundy. Like other medieval artists, he took most of his themes from religion, executed them for wealthy clerical or lay patrons. No religious artist before or since, however, has seen fit to people his canvases with such a mocking and horrifying mixture of vegetable, animal and mineral monstrosities...
...moment in history when, under God, this nation of ours has become the mightiest temporal power and the mightiest spiritual force on earth. The destiny of mankind-the making of a world that will be fit for our children to live in-hangs in the balance...
...result of all this is that a wet hand of fear rests on the heart of every non-professional writer who merely has a lot of important knowledge to communicate ... It is always a comfort to him if he can fit himself into some system, such as that of a business or governmental office . . . With what relief the pedagogues subside into pedagese...
...sports editor of Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker, Lester Rodney, 41, has the job of twisting sports to fit the party line. Rodney does his work well. When he announced that he planned to cover the Olympic Games in Helsinki, he gave this reason for going: "The very nature of sports and the spirit of sportsmanship inherent in such games has started to get in its licks against the inevitable war hoax." To finance his trip, the Worker started an "On to Helsinki" campaign, raised about $700 from its readers...
...well that he caught the eye of Manhattan bankers trying to unscramble the unwieldy Lackawanna Railroad, which is 8% owned by the New York Central. In 1941, Bill White went in as president to help them. He tackled the Lackawanna's finances with what he calls the "cut & fit method," consolidated its 18 separate companies into one, and by so doing trimmed its federal income-tax liability by 20%. With the help of World War II's boom, White piled up $32 million in profits for the Lackawanna in ten years. He also chalked...