Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although much of what the author charges is unfortunately true, it has all been stated much more briefly and co-gently than in the present article. For Mr. Boyd-Carpenter, like many another of his countrymen, has seen fit to dispense with substantial proof or to recognize any merit whatsoever in his victim. Enough for him to garner particular weaknesses apparent in a number of American colleges, to amalgamate them as if characteristic of the whole, and to label the composite, "American College" Attacked with a critical eye for definite proof and clear understanding of conditions, the article collapses about...
...delegates to the Chicago Convention. Declared Governor Murray: "I stand in awe of the responsibility of the Presidency but I will undertake it. ... I am willing to shorten my life, perhaps lose it, in an effort to stem the powers now crushing the American people. . . . No man is fit to be President who hasn't worked for $1 a day and lived on it. ... I don't get puffed up with praise but if America is going to be saved from despotism, it's going to take a platform that will mean something...
Naturally gratifying to TIME, the letters constituted an indictment of Radio on a charge of failure-to-provide. That tens of thousands of listeners should protest so violently against the disappearance of any one commercial program as one of the few fit for adult consumption, was testimony to the leanness of Radio fare...
...spirit of the famous delicately traced windows in the Cathedral of Chartres. These famous Grisaille windows in the best lighted church in the world were made in the XIII century and contain over 5000 figures. Goodhue succeeded admirably in this work, although the problem of reducing the scale to fit the more modest proportions of the modern church was difficult. When the windows were set in June, 1929 they evoked praise from all authorities...
Last week Motormaker Ford told everything about the new models . . . except the price. There will be an improved four with a variety of body types, mostly commercial. But big news was the '"V" eight in ten body types, completely new in design. Motors will fit either chassis, so the sedan eight may eventually become the station-wagon four. Twenty of them were built over a year ago. The late Thomas Edison rode in one but the car will not be called the Edison, as reported. In November Mr. Ford decided against launching the eight, and the plants were busy...