Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oddly enough the directors have seen fit to omit those scenes so common to cinema colleges: there are no freshman skull-caps in evidence, no beauteous co-eds roller-skating on the campus and no fraternity initiations. Considering that it has taken only four years for Hollywood genius to advance from the nauseating stupidity of the Red Grange opus to the amiable nonsense of "Saturday's Millions," a naturally optimistic soul might find reason to believe that it will not be more than forty years before a really good football movie is produced...
...first time in several weeks. Schumann and Healey are all set to go in against Holy Cross, but because injuries have kept them out of scrimmages for nearly two weeks it is unlikely that they will be in the starting lineup. Kelly was working out yesterday and seems fit as a fiddle but probably will not start against the Purple horde. Nazro is slated to be in at right end. Kopans and Casey were given a rest yesterday and Burton and Lockwood went into the first team in the scrimmage. No significance is attached to this change. Coach Casey...
...sufficient works dealt with the dead past, his lectures with innocuous anecdotes and data. He became, in the course of time, a stock-holder in the Harvard Cooperative Society, and an Associate of Lowell House; he acquired the grey hair and the mien of a Bank President. He fitted; he fits; he will fit...
...heinous hierarchy of our parties, be stified by the knowledge that the tempting rungs have been filched from the ladder, and are distributed by the high mok-a-mok to his faithful chieftains? Why in short, do we prattle so happily of civil service reform as a fit accompli because men who sort letters and deliver mail are chosen by examination, when those who direct their activity are selected, simply and openly, by politicians? No really successful civil service, such as the British or the Swiss, has developed with this poison at its roots, and ours cannot escape the rule...
...chief consequence, said Mr. Percy, would be to penalize the efficient merchant, who would no longer be able to pass on savings in any way he saw fit, and therefore to penalize the public...