Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prepared to die for his country," witheringly retorted Defense Minister Deckers, "is not fit to live...
Most of the important organ stops nestle in the new Aeolian-Skinner console. There is a flute celeste, chimney flute, vox humana, piccolo, harp. But there are two manuals against most organs' four and the 427 pipes fit into a nine-by-six-foot closet. The new organ costs $6,000, a new low for full-scale electrically reproducing instruments. It will play any and all of Aeolian's famed $750,000 library of organ rolls-costing $2 to $10 each...
...they took but $78,094,687 for flogging the elements into 15,065,767 pupils, which worked out to but little more than $5 per capita per annum. ... In 1914. the year of fate, there were 26,002,153 boys and girls in the schools, and making them fit for democracy cost $555,077,146 . . . four times as much as in 1880. . . . But then the pedagogues began to fall upon the taxpayer in real earnest, and presently they had him down and were turning his pockets inside out. By 1920 they were taking a billion of his money...
...that home will be empty. They had still another reason for moving the treasure. Nanking, the ramshackle half-rebuilt new capital of China, has always been jealous of the solid magnificence that the Manchus gave Peiping. With the Forbidden City treasure to deck Nanking (there is as yet no fit place in Nanking to display it) the new city will have the dignity befitting a great capital...
...tales of America's early history can rival the story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith. Though every schoolchild knows it, present-day writers are beginning to realize that such heirloom images are fit for more than being children's playthings. English Author David Garnett has rescued Pocahontas from the textbook attic and put her in grown-up clothes. With strict fidelity to historical documents he has made a valiant try at turning a pseudo-fairy tale* into a work of art. From oblivion, a fate worse than death, Pocahontas saved one Englishman; now another, by restoring...