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Word: fits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tipok betrayed animation as he delivered an address. "Squash," said His Majesty, "squash is nothing less than a godsend to a country like Siam." He was addressing the Royal Squash Racquets Club. "I find that since I have taken up the game I have been able to keep perfectly fit in the rainy season, whereas hitherto I am afraid that at this time of the year I have been anything but well. "But apart from the question of fitness, what other game is there for the rainy season? Golf or tennis is more often than not out of the question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIAM: National Paradox | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

...Coles Philips would say, it's small enough to fit any girl's stocking as well as to rest upon her knee--a sentence which suggests that "Oddly Enough" is a very fine book. An arrangement in black. Mr. McCord in the words of Whistler implies that he has attempted a sortie into the field of etching. The implication may be accepted. His sortie is quite successful...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: ODDLY ENOUGH, by David McCord; Washburn and Thomas Cambridge, 1926. $2.50. | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

...brought forth considerable discussion and refutation. The delegates demanded that education prepare them to enjoy life more in connection with the work they intend to take up, or that they be enabled to find a life of interest in college or get something out of college which would better fit them to follow their chosen road in life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WESLEYAN CONFERENCE VIEWS STUDENT WANTS | 12/7/1926 | See Source »

...recent CRIMSON editorial, declaring that the air in the Widener Library's reading rooms was not fit--to breathe, stirred the very heart and soul of one of Harvard's embryo investigators of nature to such an extent that, in a militant spirit, he advanced against the upper reading room, surrounded some of the doubtful air by vigorous charges of an atomizer in two one liter flasks, and bear a cautious retreat to Boylston Hall, holding tightly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scientist Finds Widener Air Is 99.04 Percent Pure--"No Cause to Worry," He Tells Panic-Stricken Reading Public | 12/4/1926 | See Source »

...hampered the development of the Blue gridiron machine was due to the brief period allowed for proper conditioning. It is felt that when such gruelling tests as the Dartmouth game come so early in the fall, a longer period of time should be allotted to get the players into fit condition to meet the ordeal of battle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "START FOOTBALL SOONER"--MOORE | 12/2/1926 | See Source »

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