Word: fits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Speaking of this, the Gary "Post" said: "Naturally Dr. Hodgdon did not fit into the Valparaiso atmosphere. He was not a part of it and the teachers and students recognized that fact from the beginning. Most of them went there for just one purpose--to get an education. The idea of wasting their time did not enter their heads. They wanted athletics if they had time for that sort of thing, but most of them needed the time for study. Fraternities were all right if they could be squeezed in between the big things they were after...
...those men who are being cared for by the army all that it should be. For peculiar reasons known only to officials of the Medical Department, men are placed in hospitals far from their own homes; are taken from hospital to hospital when not fit to be moved from their beds; are assigned to buildings inadequately equipped and in many cases unsafe. Sometimes tuberculosis patients are "farmed" out in small groups at the individual rate of three dollars a day, paid by the government for their care and food. Generally, such men are treated well, but cases have not been...
...position of the ex-emperor in China is unique in the history of the world," he declared. "At the time of the revolution, the young emperor Shuan Tung, who was then only five years old, was not dethroned, but abdicated. Consequently the Republican government saw fit to allow him to continue living in the palace, with his family and attendants. The Chinese royal palace is divided into three parts: the reception rooms, where official business was carried on; the residence, where the emperor and his family live, and hold court; and the household. After the revolution the Republican government took...
...social value of free managerial control and direction on business method, and the encouragement, promotion, and stimulation of the worker's individual initiative. The actual situation is this. The closed shop seeks to deprive a man of his right to associate or not to associate as he sees fit, but compelling him to either join a trade union, and be governed by its decisions, thus giving up all his personal liberty, or to be deprived of the opportunity to earn his living. The open shop stands for giving the laborer a chance to exercise his right of discrimination in choosing...
...trustees, is to "serve as a bond between the Universities of the United States and those of European nations, especially by encouraging the attendance and advancing the welfare of American students at the Universities of France, Great Britain and Italy, in such ways as the trustees may see fit...