Word: fits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most doubtful value. The lead in educational theory today is rather one toward elimination of such artificial boundaries as those that exist between the several arts and sciences. The division of an English university into "pass' students and "honor" students must recommend itself as more likely to fit the situation. Such a distinction could well be established on a basis like that of the tutorial system as it is found at Harvard. More logical than the division between one kind of sheep and another is the separation of the sheep from the goats...
...behind the name: it is a man. State Senator Caleb H. Baumes, short, sparse, with drooped moustache and thin white hair, sponsored the Baumes laws, sputtered and spumed "mawkish sentiment" at critics who called them cruel, lived to see his name rise to a disembodied symbol of "punishment to fit the crime...
Comet. This was the man and these were the words which came as unheralded as though a comet had struck Manhattan and dissipated far and wide its gaseous tail. Where does the four-month Kerensky regime fit into the 'ten years elapsed since Nicholas II signed his abdication on March 15, 1917? Significant years...
Chairman Joseph Prendergast of the council later added: "We feel that under the present system the senior council is allowed to pass rulings so long as they fit in with the administration plans...
...matter of fact, this is the play which Composer Taylor set to music. To fit the music Miss Millay had later to modify her lines to libretto form...