Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...start with as clear a slate as possible with no definite committments to certain methods merely because they have been successful in another country. It has become fairly obvious by this time, that several of the tutors in Lowell House, enthusiastic over the English system because it seemed to fit their personal needs, are unduly eager to start this House off with a strong anglophile bias...
There still remain vestiges of past rowing history which may hamper the new coach. It is to be hoped that he will be given free reign to carry out his policies as he sees fit. He should have complete power to name his own assistants and to regulate and direct coaching of all rowing at Harvard from the freshman dormitory crews right up to the first university eight. From all reports, Mr. Whiteside is the type of man to be entrusted with a share in Harvard's crew destinies not only to the extent of turning out winning combinations...
...ladies! But if the Prince wants it, all right with me. Here you?" He turned to a second, "Get me an undershirt. Try and get one that will fit...
...Patriarch. William Courtleigh is disclosed as an aged mountaineer who acts as lawgiver for his entire region. When one of his sons slays another in a fit of sexual rage, the hoary solon is faithful to the credo of the crags and becomes the boy's executioner. While it provokes thought, is often sensitively acted, this earnest incident has perhaps been regarded too literally, fails to achieve dramatic impact...
...crust which, according to one theory, is as rigid as steel and as elas- tic, rather than viscous, like stiff pitch. They would verify the hypothesized drift of North America from Europe and South America from Africa. (As can be seen on a globe, the continents would roughly fit together.) Such scientific gnomes might be able to determine the existence of an interstellar ether. They could certainly measure the relation of earth heat to earth depth. They might learn the source of that heat, might learn the nature of radio-activity in rocks, might learn the characteristics of earthquakes, might...