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Word: fitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hint of another possible remarriage in the offing, certainly does not seem to indicate the kind of parental influence that one might expect from a family of strong religious and social interests. The most discouraging feature of it all is that neither the President nor his wife has seen fit to give any public intimation that they do not regard these proceedings as wholly regular, normal and consistent with the Christian religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bishop on Divorces | 7/9/1934 | See Source »

...long accepted Marlborough House as the normal residence of an adult Prince of Wales. Three years after the death of the Dowager Queen in 1925 the Queen swept in with carpenters, painters, decorators. At a cost running into tens of thousands of pounds enormous Marlborough House was made fit to receive David and his bride, but for six long years David has provokingly continued to occupy his bachelor suite in a wing of St. James's Palace. At a cost of additional thousands of pounds he has made over Fort Belvedere near Sunningdale Golf Course into a sumptuous bachelor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Bachelor at 40 | 7/2/1934 | See Source »

...Chester Morris). The sailor becomes a prosperous gentleman but when he learns that the girl interested herself in him to win a bet. his wrath is great and he flays her and her rich friends for a pack of rotters. A nasty accident and a reconciliation follow. Cut to fit a familiar, frivolous and unpleasant pattern. Let's Talk It Over is not much to talk over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 25, 1934 | 6/25/1934 | See Source »

...woman leader of a cult who is now dead and in her grave. She was no Messiah and no God, just a woman of bones, flesh and blood, and yet this plaintiff, who will die as you and I, with hundreds of thousands of others, has seen fit to put aside real science ... to adopt the belief that pain and illness are things of the imagination and not of reality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Real Science & Reality | 6/25/1934 | See Source »

...size and thickness of the bars, and in the calm tones of an oldtime liberal announced that it would be some time before the audience would have to start running for its life. After analyzing the nature of revolution, its causes and symptoms, Author Soule proceeds to fit current U. S. history to this revolutionary pattern, finds that the U. S. revolution is still in its preliminary stages. Capitalism is changing, but it still has a few tricks up its sleeve. ''The chills and fever of capitalism, observed since its infancy, shake and burn its whole body more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Revolution Analyzed | 6/25/1934 | See Source »

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