Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heat in the canyon was intense. It had already killed one workman. Secretary Wilbur, the sweat running into his eyes, felt dizzy. Last week his department ordered physical examination for all Hoover Dam workers to determine if they were fit to stand the blazing canyon temperature (100° plus) at dam site. Much of the labor has been recruited from nearby camps of unemployed men whose physical condition has been lowered by scant rations...
...Svetozar Pribitchevitch is not fit to be banished," read the Government communique. "He must remain in hospital"- incidentally one of the cleanest, most comfortable places in Belgrade...
...Turkish Chamber of Commerce sensed a possible U. S. trend toward the nargile, announced last week that not only can a pearl and diamond encrusted hubble-bubble be supplied by special order but that all kinds of hubble-bubbles can be had from Turkey in styles and prices to fit every U. S. taste and purse...
...Mayor James J. Walker; if her sister, Tucker Faithfull, were a secretive girl whose full lips and slim legs photographed well; and if the story broke during a heat wave and a scarcity of big news?then, as happened last fortnight, the august New York Times might consider it fit to print front-page for nearly two weeks. Cyrus H. K. Curtis' polite New York Evening Post might feature on its front page a three-column drawing of the girl's family and dog in their home. The Chicago Tribune might feel called upon to print an 8-column banner...
...with her, but at 13 she had begun to worry. When Falconer arrived in England Judy was whisked off to a farm in the country, where she was made the slavey of an ill-natured old nurse who treated her like a moral leper. When one night in a fit of rage the nurse explained to Judy what a bastard was, told her she was it, Judy was horrified, ran away. When they finally found her, unco guidness and her own adolescent fears had almost addled her little pate; it took all of Hilary's affectionate tact to mend matters...