Word: fits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would, because Republicans as a body are against it. Among Democrats, those with political possibilities of a national scope fear to don it completely. There are some ?John W. Davis, Carter Glass, Newton D. Baker?who would be willing, but who, for reasons chiefly political, would not perfectly fit. Ironically enough, some of them were "too close to Wil- son." Outside of politics there are Edward W. Bok, a publicist, A. Lawrence Lowell, Ray Lyman Wilbur?but none of national proportions?none except the rugged, unassuming, eloquent bachelor of Youngstown, Ohio. Certainly ex-Justice Clarke never expected the honor...
...speaking plainly; he may be pleased to know that this is the only kind of speaking which can appeal to the undergraduate. Hedging, platitudinizing, nationalizing may all have uses in justifying antiquated doctrines; but what the student demands is new light, new ideas, a new philosophy which will fit in with his own operations and his own knowledge...
...week. They are guilty of negligence in a petty way. But should they suffer the same penalty as those who through sheer neglect of work or lack of intelligence have failed to get their two C's and a D? I think not. Why not make the punishment fit the crime and forbid any cutting among the offenders? HENRY W. ABBOT...
...course," he continued, "our newspapers have their faults as well as their good points. The tendency today is toward bulk. The personal touch is lost because of the unwieldy size of the papers. A paper which prints 'all the news that is fit to print' is too large to be read thoroughly...
Then too there is the bunkum that is considered fit to print. On this point Mr. Belloc, as the Happy Journalist is pleasantly frank. He loves to walk about at night, and often stops...