Word: fitting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...This Dewey person's "blue-ribbon" jury: How does a "blue-ribbon" jury fit into the American picture? To use the old Stanford phrase "it looks fishy and so smells." Who is the donor of the ribbon? And who made him the holder of the ribbons...
...Russell and Hedblom are unable to make the grade at center for any reason, then Wilson will be needed there. If Russell or Hedblom becomes a fixture, however, as looks highly probable at this writing, then Wilson will fit in at guard, with Dave Glueck holding down the other guard position. Fortunately, spring practice brought out several promising guardsmen from this year's Sophomores...
...Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, Britain fears the next war may be lost in London's alleyways. A year ago the Government began a campaign to make all Britons physically fit, and last week British citizens undertook a crusade to provide playing fields for the 5,000,000 British children who have no place to play but city streets...
Westerner: Use your eyes, mister. Look around you. These blighted miles of hot sand have been made fit places to live in. Think of it! One day worth nothin' 'cept to go crazy thirstin' and watchin' vinegarroons crawlin' by the cacti, and today worth one billion dollars in taxable property! That's progress for ye, mister, that's progress...
...ballparks is the box-office problem of the peeping urchin at the knothole. When radio stretches the knothole to fit its public's enormous ear, the problem swells to lawsuit size. Pittsburgh Athletic Co. has banned any broadcasting from the Pittsburgh Pirates' home grounds (similar bans are in force at the Yankee Stadium, Polo Grounds, Ebbets Field). But at the beginning of the baseball season Pittsburgh Athletic Co. sold to General Mills, Inc., Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Inc., for broadcasting over Stations WWSW and NBC's KDKA (Pittsburgh), exclusive rights for games played by the Pirates away...