Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...half-course in American civilization would probably attract a large number of students. Laboratory men, now too busy for extra-curricular history, might well fit a half-course into their distribution schedules. As a course it could be a new departure in Harvard education, with emphasis on personal contact, small groups, informality, and with less stress on examinations. On the other side it may be argued that the giving of course credit would not necessarily increase participation. Moreover, an experimental course faces the real danger of becoming a notorious snap, particularly if formal check-ups are minimized. And the very...
...Senate by suggesting that it go home soon. His listeners wondered if Senator Bankhead was putting out a feeler for the President, who enjoys life much more when Congress is not around. If that was the case, here was another occasion on which Mr. Roosevelt had not seen fit to take his Majority Leader into his confidence. For among the first to rise in surprised opposition to Mr. Bankhead's idea was plodding Leader Barkley...
Concluded Planner Neylan: "Any suggestion which does not fit in with the conventional jargon of diplomats and the sabre-rattling of those who will not be in the front line trenches will be considered bizarre and Utopian...
...Poland. Several Polish divisions lay outside Danzig ready to march in if the German Army made one false step in Danzig's direction. The Warsaw press urged the Government to copy Herr Hitler's tactics and assume a protectorate over Danzig. Since the Führer saw fit to denounce the Polish-German Treaty in a public speech, the Polish Government decided to answer him in kind. This week Foreign Minister Josef Beck and Premier Felicjan Slawoj-Sklad-kowski are to go before the Polish Parliament and say their say about Herr Hitler. An unnamed spokesman...
...interested in our advance towards a socialism, achieved not by sudden revolution, but slow realization of its practicality. "Socialism in just democracy--an extension of government function made necessary by conditions under which we live a progress that has gone on for generations." Change comes about when these reforms fit into the social structure. Many of the "radical" measures of the Communist Manifesto of 1848 have become part of our lives after separation from their "ism" tag. Public regulation of schools, recreational centers, agriculture or business, once considered "dangerous," is now an accepted government function, and public ownership of railroads...