Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Putting their Nordic heads together to see what could be done to make The Fatherland a still more fit place for Aryan heroes, Der Führer Adolf Hitler and Minister-President Hermann Wilhelm Göring last week launched a new series of laws so super-drastic that even Germans long used to the rigors of Nazidom shuddered with apprehension. The first of these laws, framed by General Göring, imposes the death penalty on any German who "knowingly and unscrupulously, out of sheer selfishness or for other base motives, sends or leaves his money or other property...
Mielziner, extended the gloomy back ground of the shadows and cellars under a big city bridge to fit the wider range of Cameraman Peverell Marley's lenses...
...Rockefeller Jr. being put down for a modest contribution. With details of transportation handled by Secretary Jesse Moren Bader of the Federal Council's Department of Evangelism, the tour went off without mishap. Traveling simply by train and plane, members of Preaching Mission "teams" kept themselves physically fit by eschewing whatever social functions they might have been invited to, spiritually consecrated by dropping to their knees at 8 a.m. breakfasts in prayer with local ministerial committees formed to collaborate with them wherever they went...
...resources of Boston have bolstered up the services that Stillman cannot supply, Another innovation of vital concern to the college is the psychiatric clinic. Every year a number of maladjusted individuals come to college, and because of a variety of troubles--finances, family, studies, and even love--fail to fit into the picture. When the psychiatric division takes charge of such men, they are generally sent back on the path to mental health...
...Louisiana judge, a juvenile officer and a welfare worker decided that Mrs. Erne Crawford was fit to mother the baby boy whom she first swore a brindle dog dropped at her Louisiana cabin door, then admitted she had borne guiltily back of her woodshed (TIME, Nov. 23). Louis Crawford, her pious, abstinent, pale-eyed cuckold, after a good tussle with the Holy Spirit, last week pulled in his horns, took Effie and their two young sons across Lake Pontchartrain to New Orleans' Charity Hospital to claim the babe...