Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Austrian water ski is made of a bamboo frame about 8 ft. long, 2½ ft. wide. The frame is filled with a tapered rubber bladder topped at the centre with a boot-like rubber cylinder. The walker's foot and leg fit into the cylinder up to the hip. Fastened to the underside of the frame are two hollow cones. The broad hollow ends are directed backward and provide sufficient hydrodynamic resistance to keep the skis from sliding backward between steps. The water-walker must exert much effort to keep his legs from going apart and from under...
Director von Sternberg, neither creator nor translator, had the insoluble problem of duplicating a masterpiece in a medium which it was not meant to fit. The string of hasty sequences with which the picture replaces the first volume of the novel fails to make Clyde Griffiths excitingly alive, "unless the spectator remembers the novel well enough to fill in the gaps. Titles, gloomily printed on a background of waves, interrupt the action more than they elucidate it. Phillips Holmes plays Clyde Griffiths in perfunctory fashion. He experiences every human emotion without varying his expression except by a toothy smile...
...raised hullabaloo before the Texas Legislature. J. Frank Dobie, Texas historian & author (Coronado's Children) flayed what he termed "going into a corral and shooting down so many milk cows." The Texas Senate passed a bill authorizing the State Game Commission to buy all the buffaloes it sees fit and forbidding the killing of all females and any bulls under ten years. Out of vast herds there now remain in North America about 22,000 known buffaloes (protected by the U. S. and Canadian Governments), in Europe 59 known bison (protected through the European Bison Society). Most important European...
...Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown: IT HAS BEEN MY MISFORTUNE TO DEAL WITH A GOOD MANY DIRTY NEWSPAPERS. . . . THE KANSAS CITY STAR DOESN'T HESITATE TO COLOR THE NEWS AS IT SEES FIT. ... I THINK THEIR PAPER SHOULD BE SUPPRESSED FROM THE MAILS...
Modesty. Teachers are excessively modest. "At present they fit so noiselessly into the social and political fabric that the public does not hear the sound of the spindle and the loom." (Dr. Sutton...