Word: fits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next morning, repentant of the sins of his lower self, 'Dr. Jekyll' emerges from the metamorphosic sleep, rushes to the nearest newsstand to buy the Times. Then, as he sips his breakfast coffee, he reads in neat, encyclopaedic columns -all the news that's fit to print.' But when the day's work is done, when the mind of Dr. Jekyll is weak and tired, then Mr. Hyde leaps up within him, overwhelms him. . . . Then there is the inevitable purchase of the Evening Graphic...
Charles Evans Hughes: "I called on Premier Poincaré last week and emerged just as Secretary Mellon entered his antechamber. Mr. Mellon and I chatted for a moment and swopped friendly boasts about how each of us had recently taken a ten-mile walk to keep fit. Frenchmen who avoid walking whenever possible, were intrigued, the more so as my age is 64 and Mr. Mellon...
...improved icebox. Then followed Grover Cleveland and Calvin Coolidge (in 1924) with "bigger and better" refrigerators in the White House. But, it is Mr. Coolidge who brings the dawn of the great electrical era. The first event was the famed electric hobby horse ("camelephant"), upon which the President keeps fit. (TIME, Feb. 23, 1925.) Recently a new electric elevator was installed and also, mirabile dictu, an electric refrigerator system† with finny copper cooling coils and four one-half horsepower compressors. This equipment is equivalent to 1,000 pounds of melting...
...which German reparations can be paid -at the cost of envassaling German industry to U. S. or at least non-German bankers. The machinery or "producer-goods" security for such loans would then become literally a foreign mortgaged harness for the German worker. Who may be called upon to fit this harness? Only last week a trifle of preliminary fitting was done by the potent Manhattan firm of Dillon, Read & Co. The cables carried news that the great Diskonto Gesellschaft, the largest bank in Germany, has been forced to increase its capital by 35 million gold marks, of which...
...General Motors directors last week saw fit to make a 50% stock dividend. This reached almost 3,000,000 shares, makes the present capitalization about 9,000,000 (at current Stock Exchange prices, worth $1,800,000,000,* upon which 1¾% dividends will be paid beginning Sept. 11. The E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co. and its stockholders will gain most. They hold somewhat more than 25% of General Motors stock...