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Word: fittingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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After these miner lapses, however, there is a rush toward better things. "The Criminal Record" guides the reader expertly through five masterpieces of 'tee' literature, and serves as a fitting prelude to the agony columns that have made the "Saturday Review" famous and may do the same for the "Advocate...

Author: By Otto Schoen--rene, | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 6/9/1937 | See Source »

The appointment of Mr. Robert S. Hillyer to be Boylston professor of rhetoric and oratory at Harvard University is a fitting tribute to a young man who has won distinction as a poet and teacher. At the same time it places upon him the heavy responsibility of following in the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 5/18/1937 | See Source »

Fans of Astaire and Rogers will be by no means disappointed in the team's new picture, "Shall We Dance," now showing at Keith Memorial. The show is superbly balanced with dancing, music, comedy, and romance all fitting in to make excellent entertainment.

Author: By W. B., | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 5/6/1937 | See Source »

In starting a student convention tomorrow to reconsider the Constitution in the light of modern conditions, the Council of Government Concentrators has chosen a fitting way to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the turbulent 1787 Convention. With hysterical cries like "scrapping the Constitution" and "assaults on Constitutional morality" booming from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MODEL CONVENTION | 4/29/1937 | See Source »

Clochemerle, a small French provincial town in the Beaujolais wine district, was governed in 1923 by a shrewdly ambitious mayor. Progress within reasonable limits, and to the greater glory of the administration, was his realistic policy. What Clochemerle needed, thought the mayor, was a public urinal. The thing was erected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Clochemerle 1923 | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

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