Word: fits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tennis or squash or a row on the river; often, too, it is difficult to find partners or facilities. The temptation of the easiest way is to let exercise slip, or to put up with the old-man's expedient of walking or the much-vaunted "daily dozen," which fit more easily into the day's routine. The result, too often, is the sad spectacle of a fine mind or able character wasted in an unsteady framework...
...have been included that have not real merit. One innovation seems to me to be in rather poor taste--the makeup pages on pages 210 and 211 of which the like have never before appeared in a Harvard publication, smack entirely too much of prep-schoolishness. They do not fit at all, and to make matters worse are poorly executed...
...world; and the familiar "springing from its own ashes" is coming to be an every-day affair. The latest is that of the problem of the school teacher who carries his individual notions with him into the class-room--a problem to which the New York Tribune has seen fit to devote a lengthy editorial...
...Rolo. From this we gathered that the building had been a dining-hall for athletes. In the kitchen were found the remains of elaborate ovens, and neatly tabulated parchment list of food. These menus showed that the service here was of the best, and that the food was fit for the palates of royalty. In fact it seems to have been the custom for the athletes to chew on thongs of leather just before a contest, and to eat quantities of raw meat after their exertions in the games...
...reached by a straight chain of syllogisms. In detecting the perpetrator of a crime, the real detective usually examines all the suspects and finds the guilty party by a winnowing process of elimination, or by the even more haphazard plan of choosing the motive that seems to fit best with the circumstances and then examining suspects with reference to it. When he is successful, which is perhaps as often as not, it is generally by reason of the number of sleuths employed and the volume of evidence collected. Induction, in other words, has as much to do with...