Word: fits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...octette is unusually finished in its numbers, but takes a rather pessimistic view of the situation when in one of its songs it sees fit to state that "the Hasty Pudding hasn't caught us yet". In the "Dance of the Flying Fish", Miss Janice Liggett and Miss Elizabeth Caswell execute an exceptionally graceful dance number. At the end of the first act the Dance of the Dumb Bells is a mirth-provoker and well deserves the many encores it always receives. The Orchid show between the acts contains the most colorful and attractive of any of the costumes...
...representative explaining the organization and condition at his college of whatever body happened to be under discussion. It is expected that something more definite will be done this morning, and that this afternoon, in the general session, each group will make, through its chairman, whatever recommendations. It has thought fit to lay before the Conference...
There are fundamental differences between Canadian and Irish problems such that dominion government as applied in Canada would not fit Ireland's case. The negative believes that such a government would not be to the nest interests of Ireland because England cannot understand Ireland's problems, and because dominion rule is not acceptable to Irish people. Different conceptions of law make mutual understanding impossible and checks which the home government exercises over her dominions make dominion government unacceptable. These three checks are the appointment of the Governor-general, absolute control over foreign affairs, and veto power over any legislation which...
...more than any other sounded the keynote of the convention, Mr. Lippmann stated that the purpose of the liberal is not to form a particular party, or accomplish a particular program, but to find out means of providing modern democracies with the information they need. No one pattern can fit the whole world, for the world is varied and the nature of man intricate: neither can a group of men in Paris decide what the world is to remain; or one in Moscow decide what it is to become. For the improvement of human society is something to be directed...
...purpose of education, President Eliot said, was in his opinion, to allow a student to so ascertain his powers as to best fit himself for his after life. The colleges of today, primarily those where the elective system exists, are of great assistance to the student in enabling him to know his own ideas. They provide a happy unity in intellectual culture, and of this President Eliot advised all students to take advantage, so as to best fit themselves each for his own particular goal in life...