Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Truman spoke as if his years in Teddy's four-poster had almost disjointed him. It was, he said, "the most uncomfortable, the worst bed I ever slept in." To his mind, it was also too big to fit properly in the President's bedroom. Last week it had been relegated to a guest room, and Truman was luxuriating in a modern three-quarter width affair-"a kind of Hollywood bed"-with a low headboard and no footboard...
...doubtful that Sarah Lawrence teaching methods would fit into a more traditional academic set-up. Above all else they necessitate intelligent students, able to choose for themselves, who will not misuse a relatively free environment. The college also requires a patient but vigorous breed of teachers, who believe in Sarah Lawrence's philosophy and who are willing to leave the sanctity of the high lecture platform for the college's individual-to-individual teaching. Sarah Lawrence has done amazingly well in finding both the students and teachers it needs to function properly...
They had only a small, lopsided lot in which to fit two large lecture rooms, plus workshops, conference rooms, offices, and storage space. They got all that in with enough room left over for exhibition halls and a terrace. The rooms are set up for scientific and other demonstrations in the best style of modern, discern as you learn, education...
...bridge (i.e., a bridge built to withstand any standard piece of equipment in an Army division). On the highway it can travel about 35 m.p.h. It can cross rough country and ford streams five feet deep. The gun assembly has a traveling range of 250 miles. And it can fit comfortably behind the clamshell doors of a Navy landing ship...
Amid the craggy wastes of Hashemite Jordan, wiry, Nevada-born Engineer John Monroe looks not much bigger than a pine sapling, but last week the local Bedouins were calling him "the Man Mountain." And why not? For if Allah, in his wisdom, sees fit to move a mountain, and a little man all alone pushes it back again, is not that man as good as the mountain...