Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gandhi might well have denounced the Communists, as he denounced the Nazis in World War II, but he would have called on the West to fight them with non-violent weapons, as he suggested that the Nazis should be fought. The West might not have been able, or fit, to follow that advice, but the moral conflict would have been clear: a conflict between a saint and worldly men. The conflict between Nehru and the West is not a conflict between saintliness and worldliness, but between two forms of worldliness-Nehru's neutralism masquerading as otherworldliness. As one writer...
...selling. Kemmerer's Mayor Wilford Williams, his mind set on buying one white shirt, wilted under Penney's persuasion: "I'm a no-good of a salesman unless I can sell you two." He did. Penney made his way around the store, sat down to fit a shy young girl with a pair of shoes (no sale), happily spotted a miner wearing Penney overalls...
...They had to cut down long, rambling stories from New York and Washington to a size convenient for the cramped space of small papers. For their part, participating publishers had to use the same sizes of body type so the A.P.'s and U.P.'s spacing would fit all columns. And they had to jettison their favorite eccentricities of style, accept wire-service punctuation, capitalization and word division. But publishers like the economies it promises. Said Publisher Dave J. Whichard Jr., after a U.P. test run at his Greenville (N.C.) Reflector (circ. 5,227): "I can operate three...
While expressing regret at leaving the University, Ullman said last night, "I regret that Harvard does not see fit to teach geography fully because of the excellent facilities for the subject here. Separate departments of Geography now exist in practically every major American university, and many of them do not have such excellent facilities as Harvard...
...chief drawback to this sort of entertainment, is of course financial. Most boat rentals are fairly high; even your personal dinghy won't fit comfortably in a car. The outstanding exception to the price rule is a purely local organization: the Harvard Yacht Club...