Word: fittest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fashions of those days. The present book has a rather more restricted field than any of these, and yet is of them, for it treats of the days when New England was admittedly the cultural balance wheel of the nation, when her colleges were, by common consent, deemed the fittest heirs of old world learnedness and worthy, by virtue of this, to new world respect...
...restriction program was broached, President E. W. Marland of Marland Oil Co. wrote: "The producers still talk of restricting production by cooperative action, though for 50 years their every attempt along this line has proven futile. . . . Apparently, chaos reigns?but not so. The law of the survival of the fittest continues to operate uninterruptedly, and the fittest are, as usual, earnest in the argument that there should be no other law. The large companies become larger. The small become smaller. The day of the individual producer is passing. The survivors of the struggle will enjoy happier times...
...half of China; but they are split between the radicalism of their politicians at Hankow and the Conservatism of their military leaders at Shanghai. The Nationalists need and China needs a strong politician able to unify the Nationalist factions. Why was it supposed that Wang is the one man fittest for this task...
...modern interpretation of the Darwinian principle of "The Survival of of the Fittest" in its relations to pathology...
...Those sad young men" wander about a strange Boston, a strange Harvard. And to make some gesture of despair they cheer from the opponent's side at every football game. Harvard is to them a stack privilege and the survival of the fittest, plus a meal once in a dog's age at a table bigger than a grave marker...