Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...common people are swine. They must be ripped up like swine! . . . We do not want to be bothered again in our lifetime by Bolsheviks. These seducers of the people must be made to feel the pangs of Hell before they die. . . . Spain must again be made a country fit for caballeros to live...
...Contact lenses (TIME, Aug. 18, 1930) are thin glass shells which are fitted directly onto the eyeball, are almost invisible when in place. They are inconspicuous for actors and other vain persons, convenient for athletes. Since the curvature of the eye varies from one individual to another, a lucky fit is necessary for contact lenses to be worn for long periods without irritation. Hence although they have been known for 80 years, only about 3,000 have been successfully worn. For six years Dr. William Feinbloom, research fellow of Columbia University, labored on the problem of a lens made...
...people have been free to develop their own lives as they saw fit. ... They have been encouraged to start any honest enterprise that would enable them to support their families, give the public the goods and services it wanted and make jobs for themselves and others. . . . Now I take it that we Americans lived that way because we wanted to live that way. We still like it better than any other way. We know there are wrongs to right. Only the misguided will claim that this system is perfect. . . . The record proves, however, that our system gives the most personal...
...Superior Court awarded the child for nine months a year. Before rendering his decision, Judge Goodwin J. Knight called for Miss Astor's diary in which she recorded her irregular love life and which Dr. Thorpe's lawyers tried to use obliquely to disqualify her as a fit mother. After four hours of reading the manuscript from cover to cover Judge Knight ordered the diary impounded with the court...
...Holt Hughes, himself a Deauw deserter: Publisher Kenneth DePauw Craven ("Casey") Hogate of the Wall Street Journal and onetime (1928-29) Secretary of the Interior Roy Owen West met early this month in Manhattan to name Dr. Oxnam's successor, many a DePauw alumnus hoped they would see fit to break precedent, choose a layman. Instead they retired in silence. Last week the committee reassembled in Indianapolis, announced the selection of another Methodist minister. He was Dr. Clyde Everett Wildman, Professor of Old Testament history and religion at Boston University's School of Theology...