Word: fits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Education, under the direction of Soviet Commisar Lunacharsky, is proceeding with a heavy emphasis upon Marxian doctrines. An attempt to bring students face to face with "reality" is hailed by the Bolsheviki as tending to fit pupils for the rugged highway of life. The former propertied class who have young children in school, complain that the seeds of a godless irresponsibility are being sown...
Under RELIGION in TIME, Sept. 7, comes John Roach Straton, with a tirade against the dance. Question: Are Preacher Straton's thoughts fit for print? Question: Why should a professed follower of Christ, cleanest thinker and liver, hunt for "dirt, present it, exaggerated and made dirtier, obviously by his own interpretation, to a Christian congregation? . . .to whom, by his own admission, such an interpretation had never occurred...
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...student entering Harvard, if he would make his college life both happy and profitable, must learn to reconcile seeming opposites. He must fit into the general scheme of things, and at the same time preserve his individuality. This is possible only where a spirit of broad tolerance prevails. Of this relation of Harvard to the individual, Dean Briggs has said...
...their erudite pates, who recalled a day when the Association had been rent asunder by the disclosures of Darwin and his interpreter Huxley. There were shingled, short-skirted, plain-spoken young women to whom the vagaries of sex-cell chromosomes and a material conception of the universe were as fit and familar topics of conversation as were knitting and amateur meteorological observations to their grandmothers. There was the mooning notable who wandered, followed by his disciples, for two miles about the town in a pouring rain, "on his way" from one meeting to another. There were petulants who objected...