Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Epsom Derby as a spectacle, the Belmont Stakes, run at 1½miles and, judged by the blood lines of its winners, the most aristocratic U. S. race, most nearly approaches it as a test of three-year-olds. Because all the hard-luck horses who were sufficiently fit to function were entered in it, last week's Belmont drew a record crowd of 35,000. Bookmakers made Brevity favorite...
...finest golf course in the world, St. Andrews in Scotland is a public links. An act of Parliament few years ago prevented indignant townsfolk from seeing tournaments played there for nothing. No act of Parliament has yet convinced the St. Andrews town council that Sunday golf is a fit pastime for right-thinking people. On Sunday the course is closed to golfers, open only to picnickers and strollers. Last fortnight St. Andrewsites, sprawling comfortably on the fairways, chatted cheerily about the tournament to be held there the following day. With no U. S. titans like Bobby Jones and Lawson Little...
Some time later the Maintenance Department saw fit to emit a howl when it discovered these weapons in the rooms of several students to whom they had been loaned for use as table ornaments...
That the present administration should see fit to let this Graduate School die in the face of such a demand for its product and in view of the unique opportunities Harvard has developed since 1909, even though it is admitted that prosperity is still sulking on the wrong side of the corner, is defensible only on the grounds of absolute inability to scrape up the necessary funds...
...Service's Narcotics Farm, opened last year at Lexington, Ky. Only carefully selected patients, upon whom no harm is apt to fall, received morphine substitutes. The regular procedure is to give such an addict the new drug while he is deprived of morphine. If he throws no deprivation fits, the new drug is considered an effective narcotic. After several days of this, the patient is deprived of all drugs. If he throws a fit, this proves that the substitute is also habit-forming...