Word: fits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only minimize or emphasize news to fit your disdain, but distort it to give rise to the spectacular. These are the attributes of yellow papers, and I, who for months have been an ardent admirer of your publication, feel disappointed...
...would never be embarrassed in doing what he thought was the wise thing simply because somebody else might disapprove it. If he thought he was doing the right thing and the wise thing, he would do it and let responsibility for rejecting it be upon those who might see fit...
...Steel directors are (as usual) most conservative concerning payment of large common dividends. They still maintain the regular 5% dividend on the common stock, and pay an additional 2% as a "regular extra" dividend. As yet they have not apparently seen fit to set 7% as the regular common dividend, though no one at present contemplates any actual reduction below this figure...
...education needed in the days before us is an education calculated to fit men to live together, to work together and to understand themselves and each other and their diverse individual, mutual, and common problems as they arise in the intricate, incessant interplay of life; to understand and utilize, too, the environment in which that life must be lived. There will be diminishing place for any arid or ornamental "scholarship" (that is, mere erudition for its own sake out of books), for any complacent self-exclusion in a life of purely intellectual contemplation. Before anything worthwhile is written, something must...
...notices a certain amount of pique in American press comment that Europe has got together without America's assistance and worked out some sort of an agreement. It does not fit in with the preconceived notion on the other side of the Atlantic of a hate-torn Europe, which could only be reconciled through the pious efforts of the United States...