Word: fits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...international friendship comes the opportunity to prepare for war in the offer made to undergraduates by the naval flying station at Squantum. That it is a generous offer there is no denying. It is also a wise one, from the point of view of preparedness. It aims to fit educated men as officers, and this can do the service no harm. It was only too obvious during the war that it was as impossible to make gentlemen by Act of Congress as it is to make Congress act as gentlemen. And if the thought of preparedness were limited to this...
...cause you any mental effort to read "The Nervous Wreck". I strongly suspect, in fact, that it didn't cause the author any mental effort to write it. Probably he just started writing and wrote easily on, letting the plot unfold itself as it saw fit. That was the way with Henry Williams, alias "The Wreck". When he started out in his flivver, he just went nowhere in particular wherever chance took him. And Sally, being his sole passenger (and a very delightful one, too, I hasten to add). Sally, having really very little choice in the matter, just went...
Coach Wachter hopes that Captain Gordon will be fit to enter the fray, but his injured leg continues to bother him. If he is not in condition to start, Merriam will again be used in his place...
...first place when less than one quarter of the electorate sees fit to go to the polls, then less than one quarter of the public's opinion is expressed. And this small minority of the whole University is far from a cross section of its opinion. All that the vote shows is that there is in the University as elsewhere a determined group--a fairly sizable group--of active pro-Leaguers who found in the Plan a real step toward eventual League membership and voted "Yes" en Masse, and a much smaller group, just as determined that no steps leading...
...cyclopean shirt, large enough to fit such a man as "Strangler Lewis," the wrestler, has been placed on exhibition in the display window of James W. Brine's athletic goods store at 1410 Massachusetts Avenue...