Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...that there are restrictions placed upon them by custom, if not by law, which require preparation in a very special way. This is in every way of benefit to the community, I admit, but he who goes into the profession of teaching goes into it as he himself sees fit. He studies what is of interest to him, and he teaches this when he gets out into the world. He is free, in a sense that no other professional man is. If he wishes to go into public life, there is every opportunity opened to him, just...
...fact is established that whenever men as individuals are free to work, to earn, and to save and use their earnings as they deem fit, the capable everywhere tend to rise to prosperity. Skillful men are always in demand at good wages. Thus as the moral side is also developed by individualism and competition, the strongest characters are secured...
...ancient race of Incas. "The Stonehenge of America," a curious collection of huge carved boulders, stands in the middle of a great, brown plain. These ruins, much resembling the stonehenge of England, were probably built in the fifteenth century. The method by which these immense rocks were cut to fit into each other so exactly is still a mystery to archaeologists...
Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn, Director of the Observatory of Groningen; astronomer and organizer of scientific work; fit representative of a strong race, already glorious in arms, in art, in learning, and in adventure...
...order should eventually prove very satisfactory and be a good solution of the problem caused by L. Withington's absence from rowing this fall. Bacon may find trouble at first on the starboard side of the boat, but he is naturally a very adaptable oarsman and should soon fit in, besides being heavy and strong enough for the position...