Word: fits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Significance. (From the book) "I am convinced that an entirely new chapter is here opening up in both theory and business life. After more than a century devoted to the elaboration . . . and the technique of banking and commercial credit, designed to fit the industrial revolution, we now stand on the brink of another revolution in economic science and economic life, scarcely inferior to its predecessor. If I have succeeded in laying the foundations for a structure devoted to appraising the real meaning of this revolution, I shall be well content to see the stately edifice of the future built...
...good-fellowship. The CRIMSON, however, has yet to grow tired of trying to psychoanalyze the very amicable relations which exist now and always have existed between the two universities. Sometime it hopes to lay its ink besmeared finger on that at present indefinable quality which makes a Yale man fit so pleasantly, if temporarily, into the Cambridge scene. If it fails in its introspection the cause will lie in the fact that certain things are so elusive as to remain permanently intangible...
...Latin quotation prefixed to it but it has also a whole separate section of notes and a very full bibliography. It has managed, however, to escape the customary heavy historical style and reads suspiciously like a historical novel rather than a genuine history. And Mr. Lamb has seen fit to omit substantiating footnotes...
...basis one may well cite a tribute which Mr. Norton once made to another great teacher, a friend of his and a fellow worker in the interests of the University--his sketch of the life of Francis James Child. Concerning Professor Child Mr. Norton wrote these words, and they fit not only the man whom they describe but the man who penned them. "To those who had the happiness of intimacy with him, his learning and all that he accomplished seem but as secondary and accessory to the essential qualities of his character and his manner of life. He made...
George Bernard Shaw, master of brilliant self-publicity, commented: "I am still alive; I am not ready for it." Facetious? Apparently; for nobody, so far as could be ascertained, had even suggested that he was a fit candidate, as a corpse, for burial in the "hallowed precincts of Westminster." But one dignitary of the church, eschewing publicity, made what was probably a subconscious but none the less effective rejoinder. Said he: "The Abbey is crammed with memorials of respectable nonentities, buried there by friends who could afford...