Word: fittest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only human beings, and the fittest will survive. Please stop playing with ideals and words, and be prepared, for "something rather dark and bloody" may happen someday in the States, and it won't even be World...
...happy progress in business, is prudence or discretion . This, as it relates to trade, is an habit of mind enabling us to conduct our affairs in the wisest and best manner; or, in other words, it is pursuing the proper end by the best means, and in the fittest time. It is not that serpentine craft, which lies in wait to captivate the unwary, impose upon the credulons, and over-reach the weak understanding, and which teaches men to increase their wealth by injustice and fraud. God has given to no man superior wisdom or skill, to be directed...
...argued that races differ in every imaginable way, and that these differences do not form some spurious scale of merit: they simply and eloquently assert evolution's demand that the species come in as many styles, shapes, personalities and characters as possible, so that the survival of the fittest, in an unpredictable environment, will never be in doubt...
...Library, some 200 counterdemonstrators cried: "Get 'em out! Get 'em out!" Some threw eggs. A group of Columbia athletes volunteered to remove the protesters, but were restrained by school officials. "If this is a barbarian society," growled a burly wrestler, "then it's survival of the fittest-and we're the fittest...
...disturbances of man are not so little is what saves the book from cleverness-this, and a warm acceptance of life. As one of its hard-pressed women observes when an inventory of all her troubles paradoxically gives her hope: "All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad, or peculiar...