Word: fits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...growth of large newspapers and newsgathering agencies in this country has been accompanied by no corresponding increase in the calibre of reporters to fit their larger importance. The evolution of journalism into a profession would help to accomplish this; but like all lasting reforms, it can be brought about only through the efforts of journalists themselves. At present the lack of a long period of apprenticeship, which is required of the embryo doctor, lawyer, or clergyman, militates heavily against such a promotion...
...statement far from the truth-the "King business" ought to be wound up. Because Ibanez is seen as "the greatest of all Spaniards"-an absurd contention-the "King business" in Spain ought to be wound up. A critic said: "Such childish logic disguises Liberalism with bigoted reaction. Republicanism may fit new countries ; but, for those with hundreds of years of tradition behind them, it is utter folly. Compare Germany, Austria, Russia, Hungary. Think of the suffering France has gone through to achieve republicanism...
...injuries turn up when the squad assembles tomorrow, the Green team will run out on the Stadium greensward intact. The one possible exception is Oberlander, backfield star. He received a terrific pummelling yesterday and left the game in a dazed condition. The expectation is however, that he will be fit after a short rest...
...super-creedal ideal. He has believed that a new era is at hand, in which traditional religion is breaking through its hard chrysalis of dogma and coming forth a changing, living faith in harmony with a changing, living world. For him, dogmas can not contain it. Creeds may fit it for the moment, but for a moment only. The aspirations of the new man rise higher; knowledge increases; thought advanced through an ever broadening vista: with the result that dogma and creed have ceased to express adequately for the new generation what they were fully capable of expressing...
Minick. The story is simple enough. A septuagenarian comes to live with his son and his son's wife. Into the painfully middle-class household he brings a curious chaos of little things. He does not fit and he gets in the way. Finally he completely shatters a ladies' civic club meeting. Meanwhile he has come to know the denizens of an old men's home nearby. In the last act, he comes to realize that generations may mix but cannot blend. He goes to live among his cronies at the home...