Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week of visits. President Roosevelt and Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau sipped tea one afternoon with Mr. Chen, Mr. Koo, Mr. Kuo and Ambassador Sze, emissaries of China, who were there to make polite inquiries about the future of their country, inasmuch as the New Deal had seen fit to boost the price of silver so high as to force China off the silver standard.* Another set of callers included Vice President Garner, Senator Fletcher of Florida and Senator Brown of New Hampshire, who sought the President's help in concocting a measure to revive the Florida Ship Canal...
...indicates three-hour laboratory periods for Chemistry A B, while experience invariably shows a period of from four and a-half to five hours to be the normal requirement. In the interest of accuracy, as well as honesty, the work assigned in such courses should be scaled down to fit the announced period or the Category assignments...
...Conant Prize Fellows are to make up 1-5 of the college, where will the other 4-5 fit in? As mentioned yesterday 37% of the College is at present in Group III or above; add these high ranking students to the Prize Fellows and you get approximately half of the College, perhaps a little more, ranking in the top brackets...
...lost overwhelmingly to Franklin Roosevelt in Pennsylvania fortnight ago. Chiefly noted as a onetime Assistant Secretary of War (1913-16) and as Charles A. Lindbergh's attorney, Colonel Breckinridge is a thin-lipped, sinewy, 49-year-old member of Kentucky's famed Breckinridge family. To keep fit for his legal and political jobs he flies his own airplane, keeps up the expert fencing which in 1928 got him elected captain of the U. S. Olympic fencing team. Not seriously seeking the Presidency, Colonel Breckinridge last week wished only to rally anti-New Deal sentiment, register a "protest" vote...
...private replied. 'What, eating persimmons in July!' exclaimed Stonewall. 'Why, man, don't you know they'll draw your stomach into a hard knot?' 'Waal, Gen'l, I figgered on that. I 'lowed to swink up my belly to fit my rations...