Word: fits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...think we can prove is good for it." ¶(Papers of The New York Times type): "Ah yes, isn't it unfortunate! But we are forced to compete with papers like The World and, besides, it is our policy to be encyclopedic. Almost any news is fit to print if treated in the proper spirit. Now here, the sociological import was considerable, really; intensely interesting to scientific students of these matters. . . ." ¶(Papers of The New York Herald-Tribune stamp): "Well, the conservative, law-abiding, well-to-do citizen wants to be kept abreast of the justice...
...Harvard University be willing to fit men for positions as lawyers, doctors, architects, and what not, can it on a basis of equity refuse to prepare men for the stage...
...Harvard University be willing to fit men for positions as lawyers, doctors, architects, and what not, can it on a basis of equity refuse to prepare men for the stage...
Freshmen entering Harvard are whirled quickly along a course of life strikingly unfamiliar. They are buffeted about in a highly individual and complex world. Before they can gain their equilibrium, it is demanded of them that they be quite orientated. Only the prematurely fit who quickly adapt themselves survive. Experiences teaches, but its methods are needlessly harsh...
...foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong." The New York World has an even longer battle-cry, a rhetorical utterance by Joseph Pulitzer defining the whole duty of newspapers. The chaste New York Times says merely : "All the news that's fit to print." The Springfield Republican lets it go at: "All the news, and the truth about it." The Louisville Courier-Journal clinches matters with ''Largest Morning Circulation of any Kentucky Newspaper." The Wall Street Iconoclast, recklessly: "The truth, no matter whom it helps or hurts...