Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Enid, Okla.. H. Young found five of his hens gone, a letter addressed to Lewis Burdick lying in the poultry-pen. He tok! officers that one of the missing hens would fall over in a fit if someone said "Shoo!" The officers went to Lewis Burdick's poultry-pen, said "Shoo!"' A hen fell over in a fit. Burdick was arrested...
...does not like bankers: "And in another hundred years if I do not stop them they will own Europe - the world. Financiers cannot act. They never do anything. They are passive, they spin webs and every wind, blow peace blow war. brings them flies. They are not the fit repositories for power...
...POLICEMAN-John Rhode, Helen Simpson. Gladys Mitchell, Dorothy L. Sayers, Anthony Berkeley, Milward Kennedy-Morrow ($2). With the aid of an ingenious setting-the murder of a belligerent newspaper publisher-four famed members of the Detection Club trade characters to make fit fare for post-graduate mystery readers...
...with the last "Lawrence Lowell Degree" today has had over before it the high ideals which President Eliot inaugurated. Those radical innovations, increased scholastic standards, the tutorial system, the House Plan, all have as a final purpose the attempt, not to further obscure researches in obscure sciences, but to fit young men to fit in the world...
...Just as John Davison Rockefeller Jr. used his influence as biggest stockholder in Chase National Bank to mold its policies to the temper of the times, so last week did his son-in-law start to trim his Investment Trust Equity Corp. to fit the New Deal (TIME, June 12). As a step toward simplification, President David Meriwether Milton made an exchange offer for the publicly-owned stock in one of his subsidiaries. With the offer went a clear promise to register the company's stock with the Federal Trade Commission as soon as the new Securities Act allowed...