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Word: fittingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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As a fitting supporter of Dorgan one finds the Hearst press. Professional or dollar patriotism lends itself admirably to the support of such laws and the Hearst minions are at their best when attacking some respected or renowned man in public life for his lack of red-blooded Americanism. Facts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DOLLAR PATRIOTS | 4/7/1936 | See Source »

We Vets have learned to be tolerant, to a large extent, by this time and therefore will not lose many nights' sleep over this momentous event but we believe it fitting to challenge their unfairness.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 6, 1936 | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

To the near-sighted eyes of posterity, historical figures are apt to loom larger and more beautiful than they do under the historian's microscope. To every true-blue Briton, Horatio Nelson was one of England's greatest heroes, and his beauteous Lady Hamilton the fitting Venus to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hero's Doxy | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

"President Eliot once said that the appreciation of music was not characteristic of the type of evolved Puritan usually to be found in the Harvard Corporation. If we admit that the evolution has been slow, it is nevertheless true that the Pierian Sodality, which 100 years ago had to rely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: President Conant Plans Limitation of Tutorial System, Foresees Three Year College Course in 300th Talk | 3/21/1936 | See Source »

Garcia's tomb is in a convent near Burgos. In 1921, the artistic and acheological interest of its effigy was recognized, and it was removed to Burgos, where it was put on exhibition. This winter it turned up in the New York market and was purchased by the Fogg as...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 3/14/1936 | See Source »

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