Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reich," announced pedigreed Baron von Verschuer, Leader (Director) of the National Political Clinic for Heredity and Race Cultivation. "Each family will keep a health record of its members in its pedigree book. The family doctor will again become popular. In advising whether individual German men and women are fit to marry the local heredity doctor alone can decide...
...opened his poolroom near the university campus and began to lecture all his patrons on the satisfactions of his favorite sport. Undergraduates whose only thoughts of recreation had been inseparably associated with the whiskey jug found themselves being wheedled into the belief that boxing was a pastime fit for gentlemen and sportsmen. By 1922 Johnny La Rowe was assistant to the boxing coach. Before he became head coach in 1925, he also helped defray the expenses of the team. Last year, somewhat unwillingly, Coach La Rowe consented to accept a salary commensurate with his services. Now 67, confined to crutches...
...first-hand contact with them outside of a museum, instead of by the only sound methods which are books, lantern slides, and hard work. They may be persuaded that mere enjoyment of art is the end desired. They will surely forget that criticism and the knowledge that will fit them for the curatorship of a museum are the worthwhile parts of artistic study. We have here been, we are glad to say, quite successful in excluding anything in our buildings that might suggest art for art's sake, as can be seen by the close relationship, for instance...
...dragged himself across the room to the window. . . . Later that day when they had removed his battered body from the street a letter was found in his apartment. "I cannot face the tangle," it read. "Had they let me know a month ago I would have been fit enough to clear up their affairs...
Whether University officials see fit to override a wish of their distinguished alumnus remained a debatable question tonight. It is expected that Professor Coolidge will again have the job of maintaining cordial relations between Mr. Roosevelt and the bells...