Word: fits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Have great religious teachers come in the past-Roman world to intervene in its Hebraic orthodoxy and Roman materialism ? If so, would He work through the consciousness and personality of a Kellogg, a Coolidge, a Lloyd George or a Baldwin, or through some gentle, strong person fit to express the power of the " strong Son of God, immortal love" ? If the latter, why not a person born of the gentle, intelligent, clean, ascetic Brahmin stock? For if He came as a Protestant, would Catholics accept? If as a Catholic, would Christian Scientists? When last time He came, the Christ worked...
...reservations were evidently designed to please the most cautious isolationists. Under these reservations the United States needs only bring such matters as it pleases to the attention of the Court; is quite at liberty to disregard its decisions, and may withdraw at any time it sees fit. In short, the Court proponents may now boast with even greater pride that American participation in that body would be quite harmless...
President Emeritus Eliot of Harvard University is said to have said of Princeton's song, "Old Nassau": "The music is meretricious and the words are tawdry, but the fit of the thing is excellent"; and so I would say of TIME: It is wretchedly written and its music, theatre and book reviews are ridiculous, but the "fit" of the thing is super-excellent. I will be a life-subscriber...
...geology is making a bid for prominence with a brand new theory of the origin of continents. The other day Professor Wegener of the Austrian University of Graf, while training his hyper-scientific powers of observation on a map of the Atlantic, noticed that the American coast line would fit into the Afro-European one as exactly as the pieces of a picture puzzle. From this interesting phenomenon, he deduced the theory that they had indeed so fitted at one time. Therefore he concluded that the continents were originally one piece of land, and attached Australia to the west coast...
Upon learning of his death: "He was really still my husband. . . . One of his last poems was dedicated to me, 'To Isadora, alone worthy of being loved by a poet. . . .' He must have taken his life during a fit of passing madness. . . . Still, he had a distaste for this materialistic world. . . . His poems were about things like horses and clods of earth and revolutions. . . . My consolation is that they will survive his tragic death...