Word: fits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tufts freshman team is reputed to be a hard-hitting out fit and is expected to put the pitching staff of the Harvard 1931 diamond forces to a severe test. E. b. Samborski '31 is a likely starter on the mound for the Crimson, although W. H. MacHale '31 and Robert Gilmore '31 may also hurl. The first year team has won two games in as many starts, defeating Middlesex by an 18 to 0 count, and Groton by a 9 to 5 score...
...Prime Minister of Egypt expires. If by seven o'clock steps have not been taken to stop the passage through the Egyptian legislature of the Assemblies Bill the bill which practically guarantees the Egyptian enemies of Britain free speech--the British government will take "such action as it sees fit." The British warships that have set sail from Malta with their destination unrevealed seem to show that Britain is anticipating serious trouble...
Further researches revealed to Mr. Brand that Mr. Hoover "saw fit to manipulate the buying forces" during the War, preventing farmers from getting more than $2.20 per bushel for wheat when "otherwise the price would have been $5 to $10 per bushel...
...startling, perhaps a rude question to fire at a lady as she entered a hall to conduct a political rally. But U. S. Representative Louis T. McFadden, of branch-banking law fame, saw fit to fire it at Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, who is contesting his seat in Pennsylvania's 14th District. The meeting was in Canton, Pa., Mr. McFadden's home town, last fortnight. The Cantonese are not very particular about liquor and smoking, even for women, but Mrs. Pinchot is running Dry, like her militant husband who used to govern Pennsylvania (1923-27). Mrs. Pinchot is running...
...Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, publisher of the New York Evening Graphic, Physical Culture Magazine, True Story, etc., went to Washington, D. C., lectured to 100 U. S. Congressmen in the House office building for 45 minutes on "Keeping fit...