Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Williams of the Boston Red Sox looked as fit as an Indian buck. After a winter out of doors, including a month of lazy fishing at the edge of the Florida Everglades, he was tanned to a light mahogany. His brownish green eyes were clear and sharp, his face lean, the big hands that wrapped around the handle of his 34-oz. Louisville Slugger were calloused and hard. He had 198 lbs., mostly well-trained muscle, tucked away on his 6 ft. 3¾ in. frame. He expected, he conceded, "to have a pretty good year." But as usual...
...usual space to its most distinguished calumnist Mr. Bill Cunningham. The energy of that sporting publicist was devoted to the task of besmirching the memory of a distinguished scholar, inspiring teacher, and man of unflinching honor, Professor Matthiessen. Mr. Cunningham with his customary delicacy of style and feeling saw fit to convert personal tragedy into political comedy. It was one of those days on which his brutality got the better of his sentimentality. Perhaps he set out deliberately to violate every standard of human decency. More probably he seized instinctively upon a tragic occasion to establish the fact that...
Protest against the qualities of Mr. Cunningham is obviously fruitless. Yet expression of indignation that a paper which purports to be troubled by the prevalent crime of character assassination sees fit to publish such obscenities as Mr. Cunningham's may not be entirely futile. A community's standard of decency may have appreciable effect on editorial policy of that indignation is expressed in the firm resolution to let the Herald be read only by those who find amusement in a bad boy's blasphemy and sportsmanship in Mr. Cunningham's temperament. Mark DeW. Howe '28 Professor...
...Woman's Charms. In Wilmington Del where Mrs. Helen Evans had beei arrested for selling charms guaranteed to "lift curses," the police thought & thought finally found a statute that seemed to fit her case: the charge lodged against Seeres Evans was practicing witchcraft...
...shut off from the rest of the College. All the advantages of contact with residents, professors, and tutors would be lost. Yet the second proposal, its proponents admit, would be met coldly by house-masters already complaining about overcrowding. Moreover, commuters, who must go home every night, might not fit easily into House activity schedules, geared for resident students...