Word: fits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...disgorged himself before the wounded feet he is not fit to wash, and made manifest his inner vileness to the sun. HUGH WHITNEY...
...almost anything is possible. To begin with, down with the terrorism of such adjectives as "wonderful"' "great"' or "fascinating". They have dominated the vocabulary too long. Everything today is "wonderful" from elevators to engagement rings. There is no way out except by inventing a new word. Churkle will not fit in this place, why not "chirping"? It means no more than "wonderful" certainly and it has a refreshing sound...
...income respectably; and he added that American universities existed for both of those objects. This cryptic remark might be the subject of endless discussion. The aim of the American college should be, not to give its students the technical training and tools of their future occupation, but rather to fit them to be citizens, to develop those qualities that lead to the better life both for themselves and for the community...
...often his only resource. Always well-meant, and often valuable, still it imposes a difficult burden on those who come after. A will is the most real kind of ghost, one which it is hard to "lay". Any endowed organization has had its difficulties with clauses made to fit one set of conditions, and made inflexible against all change by their binding nature. A simple phrase, "at the discretion of the administrator", makes a will adaptable to circumstances, but testators are sometimes careless and often stubborn, and without some such loophole even the courts are powerless...
...sound. The knowledge that there may be opportunity for publication gives a genuine stimulus to poetic efforts in the University; and the series in the hands of the public becomes both a specimen and a justification of student poetry. And there is little doubt that Time will see fit to adopt at least one or two of these neophytes...