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Word: fitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idiot than we have of the genius. We have coddled the moron and starved the intelligent. Those with the divine spark we have neglected, while we've lavished money and training upon the pinheads. . . . Social legislation begs the unfit to become more unfit and cordially invites the fit to stop the struggle and vegetate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Openers | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

...have legal custody of their baby. For ten years Mrs. Vanderbilt was content to let relatives worry over her daughter's upbringing. Three months ago she applied to be made Gloria's guardian. Mrs. Whitney countered with the charge that her sister-in-law was not a fit person to have her own daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 8, 1934 | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

Have dress suit, only worn once; by dead man. Original pressing. Fit 6-ft., 100-pound man. Cost $135. Sell for $30 cash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 8, 1934 | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

...game uniform is several ounces lighter still. The reason for the loss in weight which the players suffer between the practice field behind he Stadium and the gridiron of the Stadium itself is the fact that in a game, the athletes wear feather weight shoes--speed shoes--made to fit like kid gloves. Not all of the players undergo this loss of poundage, since the tackles do not wear the speed shoes and some of the other individual players find that the lightweight shoes do not withstand the punishment that they give their feet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Gridders Don Gay Plumage This Fall To Startle The Public Eye | 10/3/1934 | See Source »

What is to fill the space? What would be timely and pertinent? What would brighten up the front page? What would fit in with the lead story? What but a picture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Get Me a Picture! Cry of Editor at Midnight; The Crimson Knows How | 9/27/1934 | See Source »

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