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Word: fitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...without acting on any of the bills introduced by Humble's opponents, leaving the matter up to the State Railroad Commission, which regulates the oil industry. In Washington Secretary of Agriculture Wallace withdrew his support from the fishing interests, saying he was convinced Humble would leave Texas waters fit for fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Undersea Oil | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

...Care Metropole", all honors go to Mr. Power and Miss Young. Making the most of an amusing script and excellent situations, the two turn in performances that will make picture goers look forward to another film with the same team in the near future. "Cafe Metropole" is entertainment fit for the consumption of a not too discriminating audience. Best shot -- Loretta "Smarty Pants" Young in pajamas...

Author: By V. F., | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 5/26/1937 | See Source »

...mishap put additional strain on the other stays, which snapped one by one all through the night. Soon after dawn, off Gloucester, the towering mast finally crashed over the side, carrying all the rigging with it. Said Harold ("Mike") Vanderbilt: "Bad luck!" At Bristol, R. I., workmen prepared to fit Ranger with the mast that used to belong to the old Vanderbilt yacht Rainbow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cup Contenders | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

...Varro, who had craftily let some bordering native princes in on his secret, withdrew from Cejonius' jurisdiction and watched the Roman frontier go up in flames. A few hints to Protege Terence had been enough to set him practicing Nero's every remembered gesture. Soon he was fit to be seen by everybody but his wife, who thought he had gone crazy. For a while everything went so well that Varro began to think his dangerous jest might even turn into safe reality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nero's Double | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

...just had a bath," brooded over missing out on a rich, titled Englishman. The Senator's sorrows were bad arteries, a dipsomaniac sister. President Winthrop's "New Age" amateurs swarming over Washington. In spite of the perfect April weather he got to his office in a fit of the blues, moped through the morning over the vanished glories of his past, looked sadly at his trout flies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Practical Politics | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

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