Word: fits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...employes of the Court, it fixes the pensions of the judges. But coming more directly to the important feature, the League may call upon this Court at any time for advice or counsel upon any dispute or any question which the Council of the League sees fit to submit to it. It makes it the consulting legal adviser of the League, which the League only controls...
...read what appeared to me to be the best publication of its kind in existence. But if TIME is going to list for approval all the vulgar, coarse and salacious shows in New York City for the guidance of its respectable clientele, then it isn't fit for myself and my friends to read...
Lieutenant Commander R. E. Byrd, who commanded the naval planes which accompanied the Mac-Millan Arctic expedition, said that these planes were fit for service and were the best equipment to be had for the purpose...
...stroke of apoplexy or a fit of angina pectoris is horrible to see, infinitely more horrible to pass through. The victim counts himself as captured by Death, thenceforth a tolerated thrall. A docility comes upon choleric, domineering men; an apathetic quietude rules their minds and bodies. They must be quiet, cease all activities, else they burst their heart or a blood vessel...
...death after a revolution. William II's career stopped as dramatically as any of these; why has he not suffered a similar fate? It may be that the fates are too busy to pursue a man his size. The lot of an arrogant country gentleman seems to fit him better than that of the most powerful monarch of his time...