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Word: fitters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...writing them, which is part of the cure. You will get the whole thing out of your system. And I shall have so much fun tearing them up that I shall probably feel better, too. In this way we shall all save our reason and between us build a fitter, happier, saner world to face the terrors of peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dr. Gubbins | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

...office. . . ." By this week the rabidly anti-Roosevelt New York Daily News, which is seldom squeamish about anything, was bravely facing the facts that Tom Dewey is 42 and Franklin Roosevelt is 62. (If either were to die in office, the News added, then John Bricker is obviously a fitter successor than Harry Truman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: He's Perfectly O.K. | 10/23/1944 | See Source »

...have gold braid sewed on their strolling jackets, but officially each Home Guard K-9 of whatever rank receives the same insignia: a paw print on a celluloid collar-tag. Among the hundreds of generals is Mrs. Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen's miniature poodle, Ch. Fitter Patter of Pipers-croft, who outshone all her rivals at last week's Westminster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: K-9s | 2/22/1943 | See Source »

...Though I sometimes have to wait around for a ship fitter or rigger, I know that I'm there when occasion demands and when I'm welding or tacking that someone else is waiting for me to finish, since we both learned a long time ago that "two bodies cannot occupy the same space at the same time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 10, 1942 | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

According to Lieutenant-Commander George H. L. Peet, who will direct the general aspects of the program, the Unit intends by physical education, not only to make its prospective officers fitter but to improve their qualities for officership...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Navy Sci Men Will Exercise | 4/21/1942 | See Source »

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