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Word: fits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their customers will be proportioned exactly as Apollo." But far from being Apollos, Russians tend to be short and broad, and if anything getting broader. Moscow University's anthropology department, said Popkov, has just finished a survey which shows that only 43% of all Soviet citizens could fit the readymade clothes now being produced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Appalling Apollos | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

What is a viewer likely to get in the "magazine concept" of television, which assigns advertisers spot announcements and leaves the network free for entertainment and information that fit its own tastes and sense of responsibility? The closest example now going is the big Canadian Broadcasting Corp., which is often watched by 1,200,000 U.S. families who live on the border. CBC creates more of its own programs (40 out of 58 network hours a week) than any major U.S. network, and they are so good that CBC collected six out of seven of this year's Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Magazine TV | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...full play but a longish one-acter, it might have had a special appeal. It could, just long and lyrically enough, have chronicled a meeting and sustained a mood-and with no tossed-in newlyweds, no shaky final scene. Unfortunately, as a one-acter it would not fit the Broadway scheme of things, though as a full-length play it scarcely fits it either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays on Broadway, Dec. 14, 1959 | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...honey, and carrying her pet tortoise, Fangio by name, who slept on a hot-water bottle. Since no one paced her, her time was not recognized. Undaunted, Vegetarian Moore snorted, in the language of the true eccentric: "Men just can't compete with me. I'm super fit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: On the Road | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

...conscious of sound nutrition, provided her with a happily bewildering variety of foods and delicacies. A few years ago it took the housewife 5½ hours to prepare daily meals for a family of four; today she can do it in 90 minutes or less-and still produce meals fit for a king or a finicky husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Just Heat & Serve | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

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