Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news having reached the outside world despite the vigilance of Leftist censors, the Leftist Ministry of National Defense next day saw fit to issue a statement "correcting" the report of widespread damage and huge casualties. Correction: only four were killed, only 19 injured, the material damage was slight. New York Timesman Herbert L. Matthews, who investigated the fire on the spot but was unable to cable the details abroad, agreed with this version...
...this question ever made in the U. S., told New York, which spends more than any other State ($277,900,000), that it does not get its money's worth. Their proposals for making New York's school dollars do a better job were broad enough to fit most of the other 47 States...
Fingers-from Toes. Dr. Herbert van Heekeren Thatcher of Portland, Ore., told his colleagues how he mends severed finger tendons without impairing the grasping function of the hand. First he slips a stainless steel rod, three-sevenths of an inch in diameter and curved to fit the natural bend of the finger, into the narrow sheath which encloses the torn tendon...
Katz put a technical staff to work design ing new models and came out in 1935 with a curved wrist watch (''Curvex"), in which the movement was curved to fit the case...
...first copies smuggled into the U. S. created considerable critical stir. The Saturday Review of Literature called Miller "the largest force lately risen on the horizon of American letters," while Pound announced: "At last an unprintable book that is fit to read." But when Edmund Wilson wrote that it possessed "a strange amenity of temper and style which bathes the whole composition even when we may find it tiresome or disgusting," Miller wrote an angry reply: "Damn all the critics anyway! The best publicity for a man who has anything to say is silence...