Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prompts the following letter. As interested seekers for an automobile in which the primary emphasis is placed upon sturdiness and durability we have become increasingly concerned with the general trend in automobile manufacture toward the production of cars built for speed, beauty, comfort, luxurious appointments and gadgets which fit them primarily for paved highways...
...Bennett found an egg imprinted with the phrase: "Here my word 35." Viewing this as a religious portent, Mrs. Bennett told her neighbors about it. A wave of excited piety overtook Couch. To Mrs. Bennett's home went visitor after visitor, to emit fervent prayers. When, in a fit of devout jitters, a female preacher dropped the egg and broke it, Mrs. Bennett succeeded in gluing enough pieces on another egg so that the words were still visible. Said Mrs. Bennett: "The egg was put here for some good reason. Why it was sent...
...opportunity of learning the meaning of war, in the words of men who were living the events they describe, and who were trained in faultless prose by one who ranks with the greatest teachers of all time. It is earnestly hoped by Copey's intimates that he will see fit to publish they letters in the near future...
...York Jan. 31--The "New Yorker" tonight announced communists hardly can be considered fit to run the county because of these directions which came with a pamphlet from the Communist League of America...
...protecting their "besieged fortress" from the encircling policy of the Entente, while the latter group was engaged in crushing the great German military monsters. In the Spanish-American War the United States was protecting the abused Cubans, while Spain defended its right to govern its territory as it saw fit. It may be that in some cases there does exist an actual philosophical conflict between right and wrong, but this is never visible to the populace of the nations concerned...