Word: fittingness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In New York last Thursday evening Alfred E. Smith announced Governor Landon as his choice in the Presidential election. This was a fitting end to his famous walking trip, which he began down in Philadelphia last June and continued from there, with a stopover at the neighboring city of Wilmington...
Another technician mentioned by Mr. Greene is Graham Carey '14 who designed the official Tercentenary Medal. The design follows very closely upon the usage of the seventeenth century. Further, old methods of die-cutting were used by the metal founders, so that the finished product is in a fitting ancient...
These changes are only another manifestation of the Harvard spirit. As everybody knows, the colossal changes, brought about chiefly by science in the nineteenth century, shook the very foundations of society. Therefore Harvard's problem, at least in part, has had to be one of fitting in with a changing...
Chronic irritation always seems to be the immediate cause of cancer whether the victim is genetically vulnerable or not. The irritation may be mechanical (ill-fitting dentures), physical (pipe smokers' lips), chemical (tar roofers' hands), digestive (caused by bile acids), endocrine (caused by sex hormones). Said Dr. James...
¶ Contact lenses (TIME, Aug. 18, 1930) are thin glass shells which are fitted directly onto the eyeball, are almost invisible when in place. They are inconspicuous for actors and other vain persons, convenient for athletes. Since the curvature of the eye varies from one individual to another, a lucky...