Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week William Edgar Borah stood on the platform in the "million-dollar ballroom" of the Eagles Lodge in Milwaukee with 1.200 Wisconsin voters ranged on chairs before him. From their standpoint the occasion was significant because the Idaho Senator was the one candidate for President who had seen fit to show himself in the flesh in their State. From his standpoint the occasion meant: 1) an expenditure of about $10, the cost of a round-trip ticket from Chicago and a night's lodging at Milwaukee's Republican Hotel; 2) a one-night campaign to capture...
Bishop Müller's first task was to remove from the Sermon on the Mount all reference to Jews, Pharisees, King Solomon, the Ten Commandments, and to fit what was left into Nazi ideology. Examples...
...Naturally enough the idea suggested itself of using cornea from dead bodies. . . . Eyes removed from corpses immediately after death were found to be fit for transplantation. . . . The condition after the operation was pretty much the same as that in the case of cornea taken from live eyes...
Finally, on payment of another fine, and because Ralegh convinced the King that there was gold in the hills of Guiana, he was freed and allowed to fit out his last, most disastrous expedition. Ralegh was 64 when he took this final fling at fate. Everything went wrong. Though he leaned over backward to keep from embroiling himself with the Spaniards, his men were attacked by them, his son killed. In revenge, while Ralegh lay sick aboard his ship, his men stormed and sacked a Spanish town. Yet they found no gold mine...
Following the first heavyweight out-fit, the second crew lined up with Hinde at stroke, Hovey 7, Burr 6, Covel 5, T. Talbot 4, Scull 3, Skarsetet 2, Cary bow and Fox as coxswain. Lawrence, Beekman, Bechler, Coquillette, Epstein, Foote, Meyer and Derby make up the third boat...