Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harry Truman had no love for Pepper, but he certainly did not want to see Pepper dumped. The man who rose to challenge Pepper for his Senate seat (his spring was young Congressman George Smathers, who could talk just as fast, and talked like a conservative who would not fit too neatly into the Fair Deal side of the Senate. Smathers was Pepper's protege. When Major Smathers came home from the Pacific war where he had served as a ground officer with a Marine bomber squadron, Pepper had helped send him to Congress in 1946. Running against Pepper...
...must make up. This ensures a minimum required amount of exercise. But other rules require girls who do not make up cuts within two weeks to repeat the entire quarter in their junior year; this seem unduly harsh. Conflicts with courses or appointments may make it almost impossible to fit in extra gym classes within a short period, especially when a sport meets only two or three times a week...
...could be said that wearing the right clothes to fit the occasion is merely a matter of good taste; nevertheless it is not a matter which can be entirely ignored. There is a certain amount of truth to the old maxim of "when in Rome, do as the Romans do," although this should not mean that we should abandon all of our clothing tastes entirely, and conform...
...merely indicated interest in the project. Those close to him realized that he had his heart set on erecting such a building for many years. He was a man of such calibre, however, that he left the money with no strings attached, hoping the University would see fit to erect a new building...
...lured Night Editor Carr V. Van Anda of the New York Sun to become managing editor on the New York Times. In the next 25 years, Ochs and Van Anda made newspaper legend. It was Ochs who had set the basic pattern: "All the News That's Fit to Print." It was Van Anda, one of the great managing editors of U.S. journalistic history, who cut the cloth to the pattern. When Van Anda finally retired because of ill health in 1932 (he died in 1945), the Times was a great paper...