Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...basis of games played here and with that in mind it is difficult to imagine a much smoother running machine than the Cadet eleven. But the unity of the team lent glamour to the individuals and after reflection it is possible to find instances where other players might fit in better...
...certain other of Mr. Bailie's characteristics fit well a liberal Administration and might even mollify the Senate. He is young (43), born in Milwaukee, but not to wealth. He is not only handsome, bright-eyed, good-humored, but since his college days at the University of Minnesota and Harvard Law School has made his way by personal brilliance. He joined the conservative Manhattan law fir in of Cravath & Henderson in 1916 and entered private banking because as a lawyer he helped Seligman & Co. with railroad reorganizations (Pere Marquette, Frisco, International Great Northern, M. K. T.). Yet, no stuffed...
...svelte, Paris-gowned Mme Suritz, spouse of the Soviet Ambassador to Turkey. She had wired to Moscow well in advance for the more important measurements of the Soviet Cinderellas. ordered ball gowns likely to please Turkish Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha, had an expert modiste on hand in Istanbul to fit them. Used to cotton and worse, the Communist wives reveled in silk. "On my word." said a gallant Turkish Foreign Office official last week, "when the great ballroom of the Sultans in Dolmabagche Palace was filled with 3,000 guests in honor of Soviet Russia no ladies were better dressed...
...year and three the next, as difficulties increase with promotion. Yet despite the fact that in this case the student averages only the usual four courses a year, he is in reality paying a $100 bonus to the University for the privilege of distributing his time as he sees fit...
However ingenious these speculations may appear, it is regrettable that Mr. Fruchs has not seen fit to advance any scientific data in support of them. The time has passed when it is possible for anyone to sit back comfortably and spin out a theory of the origin of institutions hoping to gain acceptance for it. Too much anthropological evidence has been gathered, too many facts have been garnered concerning primitive society, to allow the plausibility of any account which omits them. Unfortunately Mr. Fruchs' account is completely innocent of any anthropological data; his social contract is pure hypothesis...