Word: fits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Major Coupal, White House physician, examined the President and pronounced him fit for the hard manual labor of the annual New Year's reception...
...baseball, sits at the ringside at nearly all good prize fights, and is a confirmed first-nighter at the theatre, it is hardly likely that any of these specialties got him a job. Perhaps his neat way of dressing contributed. He is a natty dresser, likes rather a tight fit in his clothes, favors a green fabric with a white stripe, is given to wearing patent-leather shoes...
...their deaths. Who has not heard rumors that Mussolini is a pale spectre of himself, burnt out by overwork? I visited him three weeks ago in Rome, and found him not at all the feeble man tottering into the grave that I had been led to expect. . . . He looks fit, mentally and physically...
...American people, so united in their national pride, have a different standing in the world. Hardly another people is so fit to form a solid foundation of future world-political development...
...been taken from the White House files. It was written to explain why the Secretary had not recommended Colonel Mitchell's reappointment as Assistant Chief of the Air Service. The letter said that Colonel Mitchell had told a committee of Congress that the U. S. had but 19 planes fit for war, whereas the Government had 829 planes in use, 763 in storage, 209 on order; that the spending of the appropriations for the Air Service had been done on the recommendation of the Air Service, of which Mitchell was Assistant Chief; that there were general orders to the Army...