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Word: fits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tasks which Messrs. Titcomb et al. have seen fit to assign me is the reviewing of second rate dramatic productions. I found that Fair Game, which opened and closed at the Boston Summer Playhouse last week, fell easily in this category...

Author: By A. G., | Title: Fair Game | 7/9/1959 | See Source »

...coloristic harmony, but the colors tend to get rather high in range and the structure collapses in places. The last Soutine is an excellent Portrait of a Lady in which the palette and brush are subtly used, the artist scaling his colors (somberly brilliant blacks, blues and oranges) to fit the mood of despair and keeping distortion to its minimal needs for significant expression (cf. the hands and head...

Author: By Michael C. D. macdonald, | Title: Summer Art: Prakash, Pearlman, Wertheim, Warburg, Kahn; Museum Director, Four Major Collections Visit Harvard | 7/9/1959 | See Source »

Sally Moore's action in England is a good example of one of Christianity's greatest troubles: too many people are rewriting their religion to fit their own tastes and limited understanding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 6, 1959 | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

...flurry of manifestoes and speeches, the party's liberals roared out their annoyance at Compromiser Johnson's policy of trimming Democratic plans to fit political facts of life-such as Dwight Eisenhower's popularity, his veto weapon, and the appeal of his balanced-budget goal to the U.S.'s current conservative temper. Pennsylvania Democrat Joseph S. Clark, who sounded a call for a lot of bold new spending programs after the Democratic victory last November, stood up in the Senate and denounced the Johnson approach as an effort to "block that veto" by turning out "legislation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Big Target | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

...declared Hoad, "and I know he thinks the same." For Gonzales, who has been gobbling vitamin pills to offset the weariness that plagued him earlier this year, the tournament was a chance to prove that he was still the greatest player in the world. Said Pancho: "I feel fit, very fit. Until Hoad beats me, I'm not worried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Showdown at Forest Hills | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

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