Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spruce up pudgy prospective preachers, to make them fit and healthy, President Frederick Carl Eiselen of Garrett Biblical Institute in Evanston, Ill. announced last week that henceforth his divinity students must take periodic health examinations throughout their four-year course. To preach well, said he, one must look well...
...life William Wordsworth touches only at rare intervals that higher inconsistency which is popularly conceded to poets. The conventionality of his prosaic life is as unconventional as "poetic rapture" would be in the pecadilloes of George Babbitt. In an attempt of fit Wordsworth into the poetic niche of the normally abnormal. Professor Read finds in the key to the true Wordsworth, the well of his poetic emotion. Professor Herford, on the other hand, looks upon the life of the poet with the cold, green eye of pedantic scholarship. He manages to maintain his equilibrium as far as Wordsworth...
...Nothing has been done here to prevent Russia's dumping if she sees fit, and she has not been asked to change her methods, for Russia has the same right we have to sell her wheat wherever, whenever and for whatever price she sees fit. But eventually she will discover it is unprofitable for herself...
...Nolan will seek specific answers in such questions as the following. What are now the particular functions of the existing types of parkways? How completely do they fit our present and probable future needs? If they do not fit, what modifications should be made? He will consider the traffic services of parkways and their contribution to public recreation. Do they have an injurious effect upon residential property as they become devoted to highly congested traffic and inter-regional communication or does the provision of a park area between the thoroughfare and the occupied land preserve residential values? Of what service...
...learned only indirectly, there have been occasions when it has erred, times when its members could not reach unanimous decisions. Disagreement, or rather, independence of thought is an Harvard attribute. In the words of President Lowell, the business of the Corporation is "to run Harvard as it sees fit." This it has done, transcending internal dissension, brooking external opposition...