Word: fits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...squad came out of the Middlebury fray with only minor injuries. Moseley and Coady, removed from Saturday's game with bruises, will be ready, and at yesterday's practice, Maher, Chauncey, and Daley were present. None of them showed any ill effects from their injuries and they should be fit to face the Worcester invaders on Saturday...
...more into the Pamir Mountains to the northward, whither they had started last month but turned back when they found that the special object of their arduous climb to "the rooftree of the world," the fabulous ovis poli (Marco Polo sheep), was shedding his summer coat and in no fit condition to be shot and brought home to the Field Museum (Chicago...
...more sensible fellows may be doing, spends his evenings listening to talk about the condition of the soap and toothpaste industry, about stocks and bonds, about Florentine painting, about Peter Rabbit. To combat this absurdity the universities of Iowa, of Pittsburgh, and the Kansas State Agricultural College have seen fit to sow the wind with orderly knowledge, sending lectures through the air, giving college credits to those who can pass examinations on what they have heard. Last week these seats of airy learning announced their fall curricula...
...Manhattan from Chillicothe with $22,000 in the bank. Two wolves of the stage jump at him and drop away with the bankroll in their jaws. He becomes a partner in their play, Her Lesson; sees it fail miserably at the first performance in Syracuse; buys it in a fit of anger; and makes it a wild success on Broadway. Coincidental possibly, is this plot; life, particularly theatrical life, is not like that. No one knows it better than Mr. Kaufman...
...addressed the student body for the first time since a serious illness last February: "Last, week the doctor pummeled and poked me all over and then said: 'Well if you were one of the four hundred freshmen I am examining I would pass you at once as physically fit to enter Brown'. Te be told you are as good as a freshman is, under some circumstances, extremely gratifying...