Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...significant feature of the banning, is that no action against the Lampoon has been taken by Harvard authorities. What might undermine the Boston sense of propriety is adjudged fit for undergraduate consumption. The Harvard Corporation and administration at least conscientiously follow liberal policies in their control of the undergraduate presses. The university comic is not banned by those who are most sensitive to the reflections it may cast on undergraduate wit there...
Today, with the Blue Eagle and the rest of the Roosevelt program, looking more fit for the Walter Reed Hospital than Capitol Hill, the truth of Mayor LaGuardia's blunt challenge makes itself felt more strongly than ever. With the cheery prospect before it, that if the Senate doesn't strangle it the Supreme Court will, the formerly tempestuous bird is flapping his wings in increasing futility. Yet most liberal thinkers would hate to see the Roosevelt program scrapped in its entirety, no matter how many stones have been thrown at various parts of it. As Mark Sullivan has pointed...
...think, therefore, that the H.A.A. should be informed that if it wishes the game to remain a college and undergraduate game it should readjust the time to fit the other demands of the students. George S. Franklin...
...raise a respectable objection to this solemnly hilarious japery. Even those who do not like English novels because they consider the English an annoyingly asinine race will find Author Linklater's soothing. Like many a sourly smiling Scotsman, he considers the Sassenachs a comic spectacle, fit subject for a farce...
...used cinema film. Nothing happened till the War was over, then manufacture started under the trade name of Leica. Since then Photographer Barnack's pocket camera has become one of the best known precision cameras in the world. With the special lenses that have been ground to fit in, the Leica (and approximately six similar miniature cameras of rival manufacturers) has profoundly affected the entire field of photography and newspaper illustration. Its enthusiasts support some 300 special attachments and have produced a shelf of books, several candid-camera tradepapers, and a name: minicam...