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Word: fits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cruiser (of its own accord) struck the decisive blow in the 1917 Bolshevik revolution. Apparently some sentimental feeling on the part of Moscow caused this "adoption" to be made, for it was stated that a cowardly band of counter-revolutionaries tried to blow up the Aurora in a fit of blind rage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Adoption | 8/27/1923 | See Source »

...know him. . . as a lonely figure riding of a morning through Rock Creek Park, wearing an immense sombrero, kid gloves, buff waistcoat and an old riding coat. The clothes fit the personality of the wearer. Sensible, unostentatious, efficient, with an occasional outburst of color in waistcoat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Political Notes: Aug. 20, 1923 | 8/20/1923 | See Source »

...Willard Hotel, his temporary Washington home. The Willard had none. Washington had none. But the Department of Agriculture's experimental station at Arlington, Va., obligingly cut and thrashed a little wheat. Virginia farmers furnished rye. Mixed 50-50, the new dish was prepared at the Willard, a breakfast fit for a President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Political Notes: Aug. 20, 1923 | 8/20/1923 | See Source »

...this class have been deported, according to Sir Paul. The result is that it will be necessary first to build schools, and second to organize and train teachers. The middle class from which teachers would ordinarily come has been destroyed and the only ready supply of men and women fit to teach is a scattering of deported intellectuals in Europe and the U. S. These men and women, said Sir Paul, are waiting to return. As things now are education in the peoples' university is corrupt " because the authorities make truth subsequent to class distinctions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Russia | 8/20/1923 | See Source »

...breakfast fit for a President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Point with Pride: Aug. 20, 1923 | 8/20/1923 | See Source »

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