Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is the CRIMSON'S 77th birthday. On January 24, 1873, ten editors twirled their moustaches, totalled up their plus-fours, and greeted the first edition of the MAGENTA. The name did not quite fit at the top of the page, so they persuaded of the College to change its colors to crimson...
...Train fails to see, however that he and/or the clubs have no moral right to judge the merit of a person or his ability to fit into a given social situation by such artificial and worthless criteria as those of race and color. If these discriminating persons consider themselves reasonable and intellectually sound, or if they think that maintenance of their right to discriminate is an assertion of sound thinking or intellectual independence, they are deluding themselves...
...half later, the bloodhounds set up a great bass clamor outside a potato shack on the farm of ex-Moonshiner Turner's father. Hogjaw, who likes to boast that he can outrun a horse, was right with the dogs, but the main body of cops all saw fit to maintain a respectful distance and await eventualities. Hogjaw pulled his gun, fired six shots into the shack and bravely bawled: "Come out, you sons of bitches...
...thought it was some kind of surface vessel and that there would be survivors swimming in the water. We did what I considered-and still consider-the proper thing. We launched a lifeboat and threw out life belts. The survivors we did pick up were not in any fit state to talk and we continued rescue operations without realizing that it was a submarine...
...fit easily into any pigeonhole; if there was one, it had long gone unused. On the basis of the record so far, Douglas seemed to be the nearest visible approach to an almost forgotten breed of American maverick-the old freewheeling Republican independent like Idaho's William E. Borah or Nebraska's doughty Liberal, George W. Norris...