Word: fits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both Magie and Bump have held managerial parts before. Magic was Freshman track manager last year, while his runner-up this fall, last year managed the 1928 gridiron out-fit...
...Hindenburg was offered the historic golden goblet of Stuttgard, a tankard fit for Thor,* brimming with native Suabian wine. Dismayed, he cried, "I certainly can't empty that!" None the less he tippled good-humoredly and downed a stiff Prussian toast...
Hungarian reviewers noted that Prince Galitzin has seen fit to adduce no evidence whatever in support of his assertions. They evinced surprise that he should have troubled to repeat a rumor that has long fallen upon deaf ears...
What more fit subject for comedy than an impromptu encounter between the goody and the hapless student at some compromising moment? For red-blooded action with thrills and hair-breadth escapes, there are the traffic terrors of the Square. Suspense and tragedy could both be embodied in a visit to University Hall. For human interest, what more moving than a close-up of the daily organ-grinder? And as for mystery, the movie might make a real contribution to the world's knowledge by revealing the ways and means, of Max Keezer and those cherubs of doubtful extraction who have...
This incident, absurd as it must seem to an unprejudiced observer, throws light upon one of the most serious problems of education. Many men who have no special aptitude for understanding and stimulating young minds, enter upon careers as teachers, presumably because they seem to fit nowhere else, and teaching looks easy. As educators they are a follow mockery, and one such pseudo-teacher can do more harm by disgusting young minds with academic pursuits, than ten real scholar-teachers can undo. To judge by the evidence, Trinity College has a dean of this type...