Word: fits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would be infinitely better for all concerned to have a nominating body made up of men of intelligence, foresight and executive ability, not bound by pledges prematurely given, and acting as best they saw fit in the light of changing circumstances, than it is for the party to continue to function through the medium of an assembly of acquiescent figure-heads under the domination of a few clever leaders. May the hand of progress soon ring the curtain down upon the farce of the preferential primary...
Next year the club hopes to be able to purchase another plane from the Navy and to fit it with landing gear, so that it will have a plane for use on land as well as one for use on the sea around Marble-head...
...eyes of most of us, Judge Anderson appears only to have performed the ordinary functions of a Court, in safeguarding the rights of the individual. In his criticism of arbitrary acts of government officials, we cannot see that he has merited such censure as the Attorney General sees fit to give him. The Attorney General admits the truth of the "telegraphic warrant" arrests which have provoked such widespread indignation against his Department. And in regard to search and seizure of documents, he declares that search warrants were secured "in every instance practicable." We had thought that the Constitution rather required...
...authorities, were of the opinion that it was the best Yale boat that ever faced Princeton. Before the contest it was admittedly an impossibility to even attempt to predict a winner. All conditions seemed equal. The three crews as they paddled up to the mark were equally smooth, equally fit, and equally primed for the race. All seemed equal. All except one factor was equal--that factor was the stroke they rowed. The Cornell and Princeton crews used a short stroke with a strong leg drive and sharp finish--the so-called American stroke. The Yale crews, rowing in faultless...
...Evening up the decision" is a phrase used in baseball when the umpire makes a bad judgment on a certain play, and, shortly afterward, realizing his error, gives an equally bad decision on a close play for the opposing team. A week or so ago President Eliot saw fit to criticize the United States Military Academy at West Point, and this week feeling perhaps that he should have begun at home accuses the Harvard students of being "Woozy." The CRIMSON and the University have always had the utmost respect for President Eliot, who, by his actions and words has ever...