Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...result of this polished goading, Mr. Curley lost his usual composure and indulged in a fit of childish wrath which delighted his over-growing circle of enemies. At President Roosevelt's train the "Kingfish" accused Mr. Angell of talking teachers' oaths while Rome burned down. And Rome is burning. It is the Rome of Mr. Curley's authority over this Commonwealth. A year ago, when his seat of power was secure, one cannot imagine the self-confident governor injured by a professor's dart. Here is another shriek of retreat to show that Mr. Curley knows what November third...
These changes are only another manifestation of the Harvard spirit. As everybody knows, the colossal changes, brought about chiefly by science in the nineteenth century, shook the very foundations of society. Therefore Harvard's problem, at least in part, has had to be one of fitting in with a changing world. Some of these changes are rather amusing. Take the Harvard College Law of 1655, for example: "Every scholler, everywhere shall weare modest and sober habit, without strange, rufflan-like or newfangled fashions; . . . neither shall it be Lawfull for any to weare Long Hair Locks or foretopps...
...short time ago TIME [June 29] had a full-page ad of sloe gin. At 84 years of age I thought something slow would about fit me, so I bought a bottle. Naturally I took a drink. It tasted so good, I took another. It was so fine, I called in a friend and we had a couple more. Pretty soon it began to show its speed...
...depend on the support of the press. It is encouraging to find a leader of the newspaper industry awake to the need of guarding academic freedom and dedicating at least one section of the press to the accurate recording, "without fear or favor" of "all the news that's fit to print...
...York City police department was imported to Rockland County, handed a skull and other bones found on Cheesecock Mountain and asked to solve the mystery of its presence there. Sterilizing the skull, he placed it on an artificial neck made out of a curtain pole shaved down to fit the opening of the spinal column. Inside the skull on either side of the pole, he wedged two radio tubes to hold the head steady. The other end of the pole he fitted in a stand made of a soap...