Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dunster acquaintance of ours, who delights in outdoor interludes, last Thursday evening forsook Dunster's costume affair for a stroll along the river's edge. In the course of their wandering he and the young lady accompanying him saw fit to fall into the Charles...
Soda sippers in a drug store on the Square witnessed the other day an unusual example of one of the many ways in which members of a university benefit the community. Entering the store with half a dozen Wellesley and Radcliffe girls, a small dog proceeded to throw a fit which cast him all over the floor and his feminine companions into a corner...
...field of combat yesterday afternoon, the warring forces of the CRIMSON and Lampoon baseball stars buried their hatchets long enough to challenge Coach Samborski's nine. The latter, however, loath to risk their high-ranking status, rejected the challenge on the grounds that their multiuniformed antagonists were not fit opposition...
...Eckener that it would be a smart thing to beat all other nations in the race to establish a North Atlantic airline. Simultaneously, the U. S. Navy offered the use of its great airdock at Lakehurst, idle since the Akron and Macon disasters. To permit the vast Hindenburg to fit the Lakehurst hangar, Dr. Eckener removed two ribs, thus shortened her seven feet. Even so, she is 803 ft. long, 135 ft. high, holds some 7,000,000 cu. ft. of hydrogen, has nearly twice the bulk of the old Graf Zeppelin...
...self-reliant Briton, who repeatedly has said that "doctors get mighty little prestige without publicity," refused to be shushed, motioned Dr. Sondern to keep quiet, lit a new briar pipe, declared: "It can be said with every emphasis that [King Edward VIII] is in good health. He keeps himself fit, wants very little doctoring and takes so much exercise that sometimes he has to be restrained a little. He flies very little now, because he's very aware of the big responsibilities attached to his office...