Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carr's problems; Jack doesn't know what to do with him. His natural bent appears of late to be that of fullback, but as Freshman he captained his team from the center halfback position, while he kicks, thinks, and is handy enough with his head to fit into the forward picture. Anyway, Robie was the star of Saturday's game, and he ought to be close to the starting lineup on Friday...
...though the lily needed gilding, Mr. Roosevelt saw fit to send to the Tague inauguration a "beautiful floral piece." Pretty sentiment, indeed, but unfortunately this reminds us that the Post Office Department is a Federal affair under the jurisdiction of the President, and that throughout Mr. Roosevelt's choppy career, he has been making speeches, as he alone knows how, about the corruption of the Civil Service under the incredibly dishonest Republican Regime. Sincerity, as the President himself so neatly put it, must be proved by deed as well as by word...
...means nothing in Ethiopia. When the drums sound, the men go to their chiefs, the chiefs start for the enemy and the war is on. In Addis Ababa the 5,000 in the Emperor's courtyard heard the order out, solemnly applauded three times, then went into a fit. They brandished their swords, accidentally slicing off some of each other's ears and noses, spotted a nearby huddle of white news hawks and had almost mobbed the white men before the Emperor's guards ran in between. Seriously wounded, several of the slashed were hospitalized...
Last week Associate Superintendent Stephen F. Bayne of New York City schools delivered to his chief, Superintendent Harold G. Campbell, a monumental report. It had taken Dr. Bayne and his Committee on Articulation & Integration four years to prepare. It embraced, he admitted, "radical changes'" de-signed to fit education to the individual pupil. Under Dr. Bayne's idyllic system, every pupil, smart or dull, would progress steadily through six years of grammar school, three of junior high, three of senior high. With him from grade to grade would go a complete case history. If his interests were unacademic...
...case with a dexterous attempt to show that Fanchon & Marco had really been the bullies, not only of his clients but of the U. S. Government as well. Said he: "This is a battle between two groups of moving picture operators in St. Louis and the Government has seen fit to join with one group against another. As a matter of fact, the only ones engaged in a conspiracy are the ones the Government represents...