Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Small Babe Mercer, 6 in. long, weighed 12 oz. at birth. Three weeks old and weighing 8 oz., she was thriving last week in Chadbourn, N. C. on two medicine droppers of milk every two hours. A finger ring would fit her wrist...
...House of Representatives threw its lawmaking machinery into reverse to sweep the books clean of obsolete statutes. After five minutes debate it passed a bill repealing 1,006 old sections of the Revised Statutes and sent the measure to the Senate. The legal effect of such legislation was to fit the Revised Statutes precisely to the Code, thereby, for all practical purposes, making the Code the law of the land. The omnibus repealer provided that the elimination of these 1,006 old statutes was not to be interpreted that they were really the law when wiped off the books...
...Macbeth, what have you got that's 14½ inches high and 28 inches long. I've found a space where it will just fit...
...mood subtly, surely conveyed. Toward the end a ghoulish piece by Modernist Alban Berg (Wozzeck) was done so effectively that a sudden wail which came from the audience struck people at first as an overtone which be longed there. But it was a listener taken with a fit of epilepsy...
...deplorable condition. They had had no food or water for 50 hours. The Frenchmen said they must not have food or water for fear they got the gripes. All were lame when they reached the stables. These horses were consigned for butchering but they would not be fit to eat. They would be full of toxins produced by fatigue and by absorption from the bowels...