Word: fittest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suggest the removal of all censorship where nothing appears against the will of these involved, or harms any other physically. This will give rise to a sort of natural selection of the fittest in literature...
...rostrum, an average of almost seven bills per man. If all of them survived the U. S. would likewise be in sore confusion. But the chances of a bill's surviving are like the chances of an embryo oyster. Legislative name for this survival-of-the-fittest is "Gag Rule...
...newspapers are smart they will not fight radio but accept the inexorable law of survival of the fittest and find ways of proving their output - a popular defensive business move of which newspaper publishers are innocent...
...Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry. One of the 1,000-odd freshmen registering at Harvard last week was Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. who arrived with a bodyguard. The freshmen were greeted by Charles Francis Adams. Harvard overseer who counseled: "To be a success you must be among the fittest, for they shall survive." And he quoted Harvard's late Dean Nathaniel Southgate Shaler who used to warn Theodore Roosevelt: "It is a good plan not to make more of a damn fool of yourself than God Almighty intended you should...
...that you have to face is a pretty dark one. Men enter with serious determination and singleness of purpose. You have got to find your way on. Here, you have the opportunity to gather strength to meet that battle. Today, as always, success depends upon the survival of the fittest. To be a success and gain some measure of happiness you must survive. To survive in this battle your brain must be trained. Here is your opportunity. Make the most...