Word: fits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...published an editorial crying, needlessly, that the "Damned Souls" were not representative of the student body. And the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism took advantage of publicity to say that similar societies would be organized at other schools, specifically at Yale, whose charter provides that it shall "fit young men for service in church and civil state." The A. A. A. A. claims that many university professors are atheists...
...remarkable examples of human characterization. Abraham is represented as wielding the sword against the hostile powers of the world, while Melchisedec is shown carrying a cup of libation for spiritual evils. Placed against the same wall before which the Wechselburg Pulpit and Crucifix are mounted, the two figures fit well into the setting and worthily complete the exhibit of thirteenth century Teutonic sculpture...
...change from the former period is taking place largely through an altered conception of the absolute rights of individuals to use their property and liberty exactly as they see fit. In many jurisdictions a man who has a family can no longer mortgage his house, which he has bought with his own money, nor spend his own wages in such away as to leave his wife homeless or destitute. Likewise a man cannot dig a well on his own land so as to drain off another man's well unless there is some sufficient cause for his doing...
...certain fluctuation in the stock of publicity corporations less elevated in the European peerage. And now these rather eccentric and certainly modern royalists add to this further statement that Philadelphia, city of police retirements and national bons mots, is to have them for guests in the month of August fit date for such a visit...
...Since the war," he declared, "the new German generation has been far less physically fit than the youth of previous generations. I blame this on the influence of the War. Because of this a system has been established in Germany whereby, a teacher must take his students, between the age of six and 19 for an eight-hour hike once each month...