Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House has made more of its opportunities under the House Plan than any other, but has been sorely misguided in some of its ventures. The reaction of the members has been divided, and each has accepted or rejected the activities as he saw fit. Yet despite any present handicaps the House might well be the favorite in years to come because of its convenient location and its architectural beauty...
...unwanted produce as it must in a rigid Communistic system, where wants are dictated. When politicians or business leaders of a certain type are found incompetent to deal with the industrial or social elements confronting them, they are replaced in an almost automatic process by those more fit...
...chorus sings and there is special cello music. Greenery runs around the choir loft and lilies stand beside the pulpit. A Deacon searches vaguely for a name to fit the face he sees. Old men fumble for a forgotten pew. Tapers gutter in the hasty draft, while a child twists his father's watch chain...
...hybrid, which might be dubbed editorial-written-under-necessity-of-writing-an editorial. If such an article is read at all, it may be quickly forgotten. Another of the usual alternatives is to write a short editorial about some personal idea which she tries to modify so it will fit a large group of people. The result of such a procedure is to rouse the indignation of half her readers...
...Revolutionary general. Leonard Crunell, Chicago sculptor, has been commissioned to design and execute a statue of the first Artemas Ward to be placed in a new circle at the junction of Massachusetts and Nebraska Avenues in Washington, D.C. The terms of the bequest provide that after the University has fittingly honored the great general by erecting memorials, and maintaining the old Ward-homestead which is located in Shrewsbury, where the general lived and died, the remaining money is to be used for whatever purpose the University sees fit. Memorials have already been erected in Cambridge and Shrewsbury...