Word: fits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reverend Dr. John Roach Straton's attack upon American magazines is little short of ridiculous. To term such a magazine as the Atlantic Monthly a purveyor of deadly poisons because it sees fit to open its columns to one writer who wishes to justify divorce, and to another who desires to express his conception of God, is to play the dogmatist. It is obviously the purpose of a magazine to stimulate a discussion of ideas in an attempt to sift out the truth...
...That the President has full authority to order the destruction of the Washington in any manner he sees fit; and that in this matter the Secretary of the Navy acts only as his agent...
...returning my copy of TIME, issue of Nov. 10, 1924, and I wish you would send me another one. You will find on examination that it is a rotten piece of printing and not fit to file away with the others I have...
Regret that the United States has not seen fit to change its foreign policy and join the League of Nations was expressed yesterday by President Eliot, speaking to the Women's Municipal League at the Twentieth Century Club in Boston...
...reply to the Advocate's charge of a paternalistic censorship by the Widener authorities, it is startling to find Mr. Lane, the librarian, calmly admitting the present censorship and arguing the right, even duty, of his assistants to decide what is and what is not fit pabulum for student minds. "There are", says Mr. Lane, "filthy books, salacious books, books corrupting in influence, which it is no part of the Library's duty to distribute to readers." Thus he lays claim to the right of censorship, to the right to deck Boccaccio and Ellis with fig leaves...