Word: fits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Administration's "spokesman" system. Famed Washington correspondent Frank R. Kent of the Baltimore Sini, who has consistently twitted Mr. Coolidge on one ground or another ever since he appeared at Washington as Vice President, was openly delighted last week. He gloated: "Mr. Kellogg had a nervous fit. There was perturbation in the Coolidge circle. The trouble was they had been thinking in terms of domestic publicity, not world publicity. What they got was world publicity, and a large dose at that...
...making up work or preparing for examinations. It is a fact, however, that practically all of the men who get a job as tutor or tutor companion are much akin to the masculine from of governess. When a boy gets to a place where he is no longer a fit subject for a nursemaid, and when his parents wish to provide him with a virile and inspiring companion, they look for some one whose title is that of tutor, whose work is really that of a boy leader. When we consider that in addition to being a boy leader...
Examinations in the individual colleges will be conducted as the colleges themselves see fit, no restrictions or regulations having been established by the national committee. On May 15, the winning representative from each college will take the final examinations for the national prize. The final candidates are to take examination simultaneously in their respective colleges, instead of all assembling in one place...
...Howard presented a list of changes which he said the bill would require and which he declared would bring about chaos in industry: Grocers would have to get new scales, new measures (to take the place of peck, bushel, quart); housewives would have to alter their recipes to fit metric units; gas meters, water meters, tape measures, yardsticks would all have to be altered or replaced; measuring machines on counters would have to be reconstructed, new machinery devised for folding goods by meter instead of the yard; shirts and collars would have to be renamed?the 16-inch collar becoming...
...never to inquire into the personal affairs of the men with whom I come in contact-the way they live is. their affair. My job is to look after myself so I can stick on the job and give them plenty of work to keep them busy." He keeps fit by keeping a physician hired permanently to guard his health. Although a strong individualist, he agreed that all executives should keep themselves physically fit to conduct properly the affairs of their business. But the keeping fit by golf playing, he sneered at. Doubtless he realized that many a golf game...