Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scrambled to buy back their contracts, France, Germany, Italy turned to the U. S. and Canada for their supply. The Australian and Argentine crops would not come in until January. Meanwhile Europe was reported to have a scant four weeks supply (65,000,000 bu.) of wheat on hand fit for milling...
...other requirements are satisfied. Here is an unqualified selective process, not one that uses quotas but one that stresses competition. Darwin has shown conclusively that the struggle for existence is the cause of natural selection. Such should be the case in the colleges; for were only the most fit men accepted, it would not preclude the admission of men from many and varied localities. Natural selection contributes to the progress of education as well as to the improvement of the natural universe...
...elegy to faithful Seth, the gardener: "I'm bound here-to the Mannon dead! Don't be afraid. I'm not going the way mother and Orin went. That's escaping punishment. . . . I'll never wear anything but mourning again. Life doesn't fit the Mannons. Only death becomes them...
This year Harvard is host to the annual meeting of Presidents of prominent New England colleges. It is the purpose of this gathering to discuss informally many aspect of modern universities, and it is fit that the meeting should be at Harvard now. The whole organization of the college is in transition, but the actual physical shaping of the House Plan is present. Although only hazy ideas can be formed about particulars, the visiting presidents and professors will be able to gather a general conception of its frame. They will examine and discuss with informal freedom; and Harvard may benefit...
...junior college movement has not had time to make clear its full meaning. In so far as it aims to tempt the able and more ambitious minds from the schools to seek training beyond the obligation limit of 14 years, and to make easier the elimination of minds not fit for the advanced work of the university, it is a wholesome movement. But its danger, too, is the inrush of the multitude which no man can handle, at least upon the high lands of calm thought and effective intellectual training...