Word: fits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Were you suddenly to be transplanted to Cambridge, however, you would no longer fit into the above description, even were you to spend four years here. Every month or two we turn a strange corner and find some hitherto unnoticed building filling up half the block and what is more, no one can ever tell us what it is or why it is there. Some genii could drop a new building, possibly a "School for Making Better Piano Keys", into the midst of the scattered campus, and the Freshman of today would scarcely have learned of its existence...
...within the past few decades psychology has been developing into a laboratory science and breaking away from the more speculative methods of philosophy. Psychology is, literally, "the science of the soul." But since there is a question as to just what the soul is, this definition does not exactly fit it at the present time. More accurately, it is the study of human nature; at least human psychology can be described in this way. It analyzes man's mind, his sensations, his thoughts, his instincts, his motives, his acts, his feelings, and carries on this analysis in the spirit...
Last week, Mr. Doheny renewed his offer. Again it was refused. Said the lawyers: "No objection has been made or will be made to Mr. Doheny's filling these tanks with oil sufficient to prevent rusting and deterioration if he sees fit to do so." But the Government could not make any contract with Mr. Doheny?not even to pay for the oil so used...
Thus the U. S. saw fit to promote the observance of the Fifth Commandment not by law. but by a well-organized "Day" * celebrating 100% filial piety...
Pretty rabid talk, isn't it ? You would see red, too, if you had seen all your savings melt away because you owned an equity in an Iowa farm when financiers saw fit to de press and deflate. The hell of it is that thousands of farmers in this state and others saw the same thing, and who got the money? Tell us who got the money...