Word: fits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...production of Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice" at the Boston Opera House is an unusually interesting one; the acting is excellent, the scenery beautiful, and the costumes brilliant. It is a production well worth seeing; a fit vehicle to carry on the fame of Shakespeare...
...Engineering School from seven to nine. Already the school has programs of study in civil, mechanical, electrical, and sanitary engineering, in mining, metallurgy, and industrial chemistry. Now students will also be given an opportunity to undertake a special course of work in electric communication so as to fit them for the wide opportunities in the telegraph, telephone, and radio-telegraphic industries, and for research and invention in the whole field of message sending. In addition, the course of study for prospective sanitary engineers will be divided so that those men who expect to specialize in public engineering in a broad...
...There you have something of a measure of the comparative value of the expressive pursuits--what we call the professions--and of the sort of work to which the victory of the machine has condemned a large majority of mankind. Our industrial system provides a life of fools to fit the fool-proof machine...
...their general, social, intellectual, and religious interests. If all lectures entertainments, and meetings, as well as all railroad trains, are moved an hour ahead, the farmer must either deprive himself and his family of these advantages, or he must stop an hour earlier in the evening in order to fit himself into the general schedule. Since he cannot start an hour earlier in the morning, he therefore, in the latter case, loses an hour every day. Even if he were willing himself to work a full day, he cannot persuade his hired man to do so. The result is less...
...Treaty, individual effort must be applied to the task of building up the stricken fields of enterprise. Individual capital, private organizations for reconstruction, must take up the task in the absence of Government action, by lending American resources to give that aid which the Government does not see fit to offer...