Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond is fit to faint as his sainted Aunt Harriet used to say. Such doings! The old town abandoned itself last night to the spirit of revelry and the Vagabond from the shelter of the Subway Pagoda watched the swirling crowds in their mad career after excitement. Life, he mused, as a Freshman draped a fraternal arm about his shoulders, is a strange thing. Dexterously the Vagabond transferred the affections of the nebulous romantic to a nearby column and went on thinking about life...
Fortnight ago President Hoover asked Congress to join a general conference to work out a national economy program. What the President really wanted and what Congress had no immediate intention of giving him was blanket authority to reorganize and consolidate the executive Government as he saw fit. Democrats answered the Hoover message last week by challenging the President to specify what cuts and consolidations he had in mind, to accept his constitutional responsibility of recommending changes to Congress...
...Yale Daily News states that politics is just too dirty to be a fit career for college graduates...
...teaching ability by actual practice; many have welcomed the chance to study the customs and conditions of another social stratum; all have experienced the exhilaration of volunteer service work. Hitherto, upperclassmen have responded in large numbers; but now House interests have diverted their attention. In altering its organization to fit new conditions, the Phillips Brooks House takes a well considered step toward insuring its efforts hearty support that the work deserves...
...stated that his substantiation of these grave charges against dining hall officials was "complete and explicit," while Dean Hawkes has asserted that "his response was wholly without proof." He further charges that Harris was guilty of a series of "innuendoes" and "misrepresentations," and has shown himself not a fit candidate for a Columbia degree; here again outsiders cannot say where honors are due. It is not necessary, however, to have an intimate knowledge of the local conditions to feel that Dean Hawkes has been maladroit and unpolitic in his treatment of the situation, summoning the whole managing board...