Word: fits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stone, ex-Moderator* of the Presbyterians,† active parson-manager of a lusty Chicago church, thus genially dismissed one of the few ecclesiastical documents which American newspapers in the 20th Century have found fit to print in full...
...Crimson line-up will be the same combination that played the greater part of the Brown game. Rauh at center seems to fit more effectively than Combs into Coach Wachter's theory of "Every man a scoring factor". Combs is by no means out of the running, however, and he will undoubtedly see service this evening. Whoever holds down the pivotal position will have a worthy foreman, as Mannheim, the visitors tip off man, is the tallest center in intercollegiate ranks. The Crimson will probably have to make the best of being continually out-jumped...
Harvard will be in a fit frame of mind against Princeton next Saturday, for last night at the Arena the team fought the Maple A. A. to a 1 to 1 tie which even two overtime periods failed to break...
...been able to see as many as ten distinct series of drawings in which the theme is invariably the disparagement of man by his daughters and wives, conveying to the mind of the readers that the head of the family and the backbone of the nation, is a subject fit only to be ridiculed. Daughters mocking their fathers and wives chastising their better halves hardly uphold the idea of family authority, without which family life surely perishes. Nothing sinks deeper into the simple mind than the repetition of these scenes dished up in a manner suited to their low mentality...
...describing the conditions which he has observed, Professor Harlow said: "I have seen countless students, many of them dressed in patched and tattered army uniforms, with clothes fit only for the warmth of a summer day, all through the countries of the Balkans, central Europe, and Asia Minor. Their faces are usually pinched with cold and hunger; in many of the student countries I have found tuberculosis prevalent. In Russia alone last summer there were more than forty thousand students and professors lacking warm clothes or sufficient food to keep them, above the starvation level. What must be their condition...