Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bank and ask for a joint cash loan on them. Whether they get it or not will be up to a three-quarter majority of the Federal Reserve Board in Washington which is empowered to pass on the worth of the collateral offered. Presumably the Board, if it sees fit, can authorize loans on stocks, bonds, mortgages. The only limitation imposed by the bill is that no foreign securities can be accepted by the Reserve. The banks thus accommodated, however, must pay an interest rate at least 1% more than that charged for now eligible paper...
...learned to do this curious feat during a fit of blubbering about three years ago. As he knuckled his tearful eyes he felt them gliding out of their sockets. That scared everybody who saw him. So he repeated the stunt, soon learned to pop without aid of his fingers by skillfully working his eye muscles...
...trick of Hindu fakirs whose eyes are deeply set is to fit suction cups over their eyeballs and from the cups suspend weights...
...freedom, must depend for success on the soundness of training which a man has acquired before he undertakes to educate him self. The best standard by which this training can be gauged it some system of entrance examination, and it is this very standard which the university has seen fit to abolish. Daily Pricetenian
...find only four of his classmates younger than himself. Slight, slick-haired young Butler busied himself winning prizes ("bun-yanking"), assimilating learning in enormous doses. He edited a college paper, Acta Columbiana, drafted the freshman class constitution. Politically-minded, oratorical, he was interested in everything but athletics. He was fit, though, set himself a private record by walking 45 mi. in 12 hr. on an Adirondack trip...