Word: fits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First of all, Rear Admiral Phelps, speaking before the Women's Conference on National Defense, declared that "serious differences are brewing with England over shipping policies." This was a bugaboo so preposterous that Secretary Hughes saw fit to deny it promptly. Among his other ideas Admiral Phelps included a strange one, indeed: "These differences can be prevented from developing into a conflict only by a strong navy." Bismarck himself seems to be speaking. Yet the psychologists say that man learns from experience! Perhaps Admiral Phelps has forgotten those days before the war when nations piled up armament...
...letter to Fred W. Moore, Captain Lowe of the English team states that the latter date will fit better into the Oxford and Cambridge plans, as their examinations come late in June. Lowe also says that in all probality A. E. Porritt, the New Zealander who won third in the Olympic 100-meters last year, will be unable to compete, late examinations prevented him from arriving in this country by the appointed date...
Whether or not the War Department will see fit to continue this policy as concerns the Business School is not certain. Major Jones believes that the training received by the men here now is of great value and that more men will in all probability be sent...
...Dink Stover, but the caustic critic points out that most of these demi-gods were muscle-bound, and that they dissipated in saloons and buggies, whereas the modern youth has only the ice cream parlor and the harmless Ford. Moreover, these huge giants are far too large to fit into the modern scheme of things, subway turnstiles, for example...
...founded; but the improvements it suggests are just as noxious as the old evils. Twelve "good men and true" are to be the arbiters of New York's theatrical morals. What their special qualifications will be is left unsaid. They are probably the same as those which so eminently fit the average New York court jury for its legal task...