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Word: fitness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Miss America has found it politically fit to patronize us, sweetly stating that going with a beatnik would be a rich experience. Ha!" Mortimer unleashed his usually docile imagination to understand better the enormity of the crisis...

Author: By Margaret A. Armstrong, | Title: The Crowded Lonely | 9/30/1959 | See Source »

...else-complete integration with France . . . Algerians would benefit as regards salaries, social security, education and vocational training, from all measures provided for in Metropolitan France; they would live and work wherever they saw fit throughout the territory of the Republic; in other words, they would . . . become part and parcel of the French people, who would then, in effect, spread from Dunkirk to Tamanrasset...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: DE GAULLE SPEAKS TO ALGERIA: | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...amnesia "definitely not genuine," and insisted that if Podola's memory really had vanished he could not have played chess and vingt-et-un with his guards without first being shown how. Podola, he said, had "deceived" Edwards and other doctors who held that he was not fit to be tried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Mind on Trial | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...Nigeria, a leading export is peanuts. When oil is extracted from peanuts by normal methods, the residue is a rough oil cake, fit only for animals. But a few of Chayen's mechanical cows could digest Nigeria's whole crop, extracting both oil and edible protein. The oil and other byproducts could be exported, earning as much money as exporting the peanuts whole, and the protein could be retained to correct Nigeria's protein-deficient diet. A machine digesting four tons of peanuts per hour would cost only $700,000, and it would supply enough protein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mechanical Cow | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...believe that the idea of Hell is a true one in the sense that God will send some people to an eternity of pain if He sees fit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Text of the Questionnaire | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

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