Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cell in Lepoglava Prison swung open. Inside, Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac, most important political prisoner in Titoist Yugoslavia, stood up to receive a visitor, A.P. Correspondent Alex Singleton. After 4½ years of a 16-year sentence imposed on him for alleged wartime collaboration with the Nazis, the prelate looked fit and unbroken. The newsman explained that Marshal Tito's regime had agreed to an uncensored interview and photographs. What message did the spiritual leader of Yugoslavia's 7,000,000 Roman Catholics have for the outside world...
...front part of the pituitary, a pea-sized gland near the base of the brain. Like ACTH, it is a master hormone which seems to control some of the workings of the entire body. Just what these workings are, Dr. Selye does not yet know; he is trying to fit the reactions caused by STH into his vast and complex theory of the body's adaptation to conditions of stress (TIME, Oct. 9). But he thinks he is on the track...
...certainly intellectually alert, perhaps a little less isolation would be desirable, because after all, how far can a handful of Amherst men go around. But at least it makes sure that the cream of America's young ladies are not merely "admitted, on sufferance and made to fit as best they can," as Herbert Davis, Wright's predecessor, suggested women are in many a college
...effect on an awakened citizenry will never be fully traced. Many wrote us to say that they are going to take far more pains to vote for men they can trust. Local bookies, now that they are known to fit a national tie-up, are getting the hard...
...program. Nothing in their past as university dons or trade unionists, as pacifists or Marxists, equips them for this task. It is one of Britain's misfortunes that the Socialists, representing as they do so large a percentage of the governed, should lack enough experienced leaders who are fit to govern. There are able men among them, but as a party they are ignorant of finance, naive about foreign affairs and antagonistic to the military...