Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interpretation to a hackneyed role. But Ethel Barrymore as the old lady who fights to keep the paper from falling under the financial axe is the same kind, old, quiet, wise, power-behind-the-power as she was in her last dozen pictures. Hollywood has no one else who fits the same description. Members of the paper's staff were meticulously drawn to fit a pattern that directors have carefully designed over the years...
Stuffy McInnis was fit to be tied yesterday and tied he was, too, 6 to 6, by Boston University. After a wild seventh inning, in which the Crimson climaxed a long uphill drive by scoring three runs, only to have the Terriers come back with two of their own, the umpires stepped in and halted the scheduled nine-inning contest at Nickerson Field because of darkness...
Flexibility is the main strong-point of McKay. Special construction features such as the elevator platforms mentioned above, will permit lab-space to be altered to fit particular pieces of apparatus. The wiring and piping systems spring from centralized locations throughout the building to permit easy access...
Costa Rica. A rustic democracy fit to gladden Thomas Jefferson's heart...
...defending their country, Latin American militarists are entrenched as "the only well-organized political party" in every country except Costa Rica, Uruguay, Chile and perhaps Colombia. In many countries, the army consumes an inordinate share of the national income, and fosters the belief that it alone is fit to rule. It was armed power that put Batista back in Cuba. Other men had the votes; he had the guns...