Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in the U. S. many a classicist thought he saw a striking analogy between the Nemesis-like defeat of Herbert Clark Hoover and the hubris of the Republican Party during the past decade. The G. O. P. had defied the political gods by declaring it alone was "fit to rule." It had taken credit for all the good things fate bestowed upon the land. It had promised to put the entire nation comfortably on Mount Olympus. Wrote Elmer Davis in The New Republic...
...which make it unfitted to be a controversial magazine, and if the editors of the Critic make the proper discriminations they need tread no more on the toes of the Mother than on those of the Atlantic Monthly. It is an organ of controversy that the Critic will best fit into Harvard life...
...that the petition form of appeal in being prostituted by a group which is too ignorant to learn to budget its time to fit the new Library hours; too lazy to walk from the playing fields, the Athletic Building, or the laboratories to draw books out for the overnight use at 6 o'clock; and whose Committee Chairman has himself admitted to the Comptroller that he is not personally inconvenienced at all by the early closing. Eugene Du Bois...
...that the better a man can be equipped now, the more he can do tomorrow with the equipment. The best features about them is that they show no signs of panic. They are, on the contrary, the letters of men determined to have the employment they deserve and to fit themselves for it as thoroughly as possible. Some of the writers have jobs, some have not, but not one seems sorry for himself. Taken as a whole, the hundred or more letters show a sense of awakening that is most encouraging and indicative of moral fortitude...
...Angelo and San Antonio. Vital to the project is the Fredericksburg & Northern. Its owners asked $350,000 for the property. The Southern Pacific bid only $200,000, claiming that the line is so rundown that it will cost $733,000 to make its unballasted, steep right-of-way fit for through traffic. Last week the I. C. C. told F. & N. that unless it sells out for $200,000 S. P. will be granted permission to build parallel tracks. This would cost S. P. only $1,153,000 and would put F. & N. out of business. The "parallel track threat...