Word: fits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which had always played with hard, high-bouncing American balls!." Another said that Miss Wills' racquet was too highly strung and that she lost most of her points on this account. Whatever was the matter, Helen herself had no excuses. Said she: "I was outplayed. I felt physically fit." The British ladies said that they still remembered their last year's defeat of 7-0 in the U. S., under conditions as strange to them as the English conditions were strange to the Americans...
...Foreign Affairs, it is charged that Cummins, having no diplomatic status (Mexico being unrecognized by Britain), wrote several notes to the Government couched in "violent, highly offensive and utterly undiplomatic terms." It was also charged that, due to an unfortunate combination of his "prejudices and interests," he had seen fit to send many inexact reports to London...
...actual experience, the truth of the statement made by his father, long ago, before a Congressional committee, that eight hours of hard work is as much as any man should be asked to do, and that the employer that can't make an eight-hour-day PAY is not fit to employ American labor...
...from San Juan, Porto Rico, to the docks of the Columbia Yacht Club on the Hudson. When Pilot C. J. Zimmerman, Floyd Whalton (his mechanic) and Mrs. Whalton reached the Hudson, they had but a few drops of coffee and some crumbs of bread left, but were physically fit and highly elated at their enthusiastic welcome by representatives of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce. The 3,000 miles were covered in 40 hours-a record flight for any commercial airplane or seaplane. "And without any assistance, financial or otherwise," said proud Mr. Uppercu...
...Harvard Business School, are due the congratulations of all who realize the dependence of the country's economic health upon business success, and upon character and straight thinking in business enterprise. To Mr. George F. Baker in particular, who after a life of service in American business, has seen fit to give so generously of his personal fortune to the perpetuation of the service of business, the enlargement of its utility, and the improvement of its standards, is due profound appreciation...