Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Carried further back, the correspondence breaks down at several places. The "Rich Man's Panic" of 1903-04 and the brief depression of 1913-14, for example, do not fit into the picture. Yet Dr. Stetson argues that four out of the last five major slumps have followed "in the wake" of sunspot maxima. He mentions two sunspot investigators who failed to find any connection between unusual sunspot activity and abundant crops, but reflected that bumper crops do not always accompany industrial prosperity. Their prosperity curves did not fit well with ordinary sunspot graphs, either, but when they made...
...flavor, with mingled delight and disbelief. The delight was for a first-rate show that, played straight ahead with no break, kept them on the edges of their seats for an hour and forty minutes. The disbelief arose from the snobbish, traditional feeling that Shakespeare must be dressed up fit to kill, cannot possibly be made presentable on the bare boards he wrote...
These of the current 30 patients who will attend the game will know this morning who they are when their doctors pronounce them fit. Although in past years boys have gone to the game against doctors' orders, no signs of rebellion was noted this year...
...spirit of torchlit political nonsense in a single musical phrase. The new play pokes playfully at a dozen current problems, much in the manner of the semi-annual Gridiron satires staged by the Washington correspondents. The music, with no particular motif to follow, becomes largely a utilitarian accompaniment to fit the rhyme...
...soon newspapers, hometown politicians, even a Senator join in a successful campaign for his release. Paroled, Kip Caley strides out into the world again, too happy in his freedom, too exalted by his recent conversion to do more than burble: "I want to be a good man, to fit into things ... get a little closer to people. ..." The rest of the book is the story of his efforts to live up to his resolutions, and his eventual defeat...