Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Howell report would have made a small splash indeed in the news if President Roosevelt had not seen fit to slap one of its recommendations down with a curt "No" and to tie a long policy string to another. The investigators thought it would be a good thing to set up a semi-permanent Air Commerce Commission with broad powers over U. S. civil aviation including jurisdiction over rates. Said the President: "In this recommendation I am unable to concur. ... At a later date I shall ask the Congress for general legislation centralizing the supervision of air and water...
...without tellin' Mamma!") Mamma makes Papa remove his suspenders in the street, to lower Philbert into a sewer. ("He thinks he sees a dime, don't he?") Tied to stilts, he helps Mamma sweep the floor. ("Another thing I thought of was sawing the broom off to fit him.'') He walks across the dinner table carrying a heaping dish. ("See if you can't take those Brussels sprouts over to Mrs. Dooley without stepping in Papa's plate again!") When his parents displease him he retires to a fully furnished packing-box stockade...
Higher education should be for those who are fit to get it, that is, for the "super-scholars," or to phrase it more modestly, for minds above the average. The whole ambition of the best educators of the past two decades has been to arrive at a compromise between the necessity for taking care of "averagemen," whose fees are a necessity and the "upper fourth," whose intellects are the valuable thing. Any attempt to devitalize the strong medicine of learning to fit the mind of the less-than-average or the average man should meet with stern opposition: it would...
...write personal letters on the firm's stationery. No E. A. Pierce clerk may appear before a customer in his shirt sleeves. She has ordered that no matter how brilliant a man's mind may be, he shall not be employed unless he is physically fit. All applicants are examined by physicians; a clerk who neglects his health is fired. Partner Mercereau's office adjoins Mr. Pierce's. She often answers his calls, has an agreement with him that neither shall ride in an airplane...
...Exchange; pork-eating Jews from Germany; strictly kosher Jews from Galicia and Palestine; liberal Jews from the New York of Temple Emanu-El; Socialist Jews from the locals of the Second International; Communist Jews from the Saar and from Union Square. Although Mr. Nathan names no names, his types fit into the headlines of the daily newspapers of a dozen countries...