Word: fittingly
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...provisional constitution has been drawn up to serve as a basis for discussion, and it is earnestly hoped that you may see fit to send a delegate to the meeting...
After the speeches Captain Campbell said that the spring practice will begin as soon as the field is fit for playing. He also announced a kicking contest, the plans for which will be published in a few days...
With considerable apprehension that you will not see fit to devote space in your paper to such a trifling subject, I write to call your attention to the desirability of having dinner at noon on Sundays at Memorial. Under the present arrangement at Memorial the man who misses breakfast, partakes of the fearfully inadequate Sunday lunch and in the evening takes tea at the house of a friend, puts his precious existence in jeopardy from starvation. On the other hand it may be said that the man who goes out to dinner at noon and returns in the evening...
...spend, and then have tried to bring the income to that figure regardless of other matters. Their idea is that expense should determine income, not that income should determine expense. In other words, these kindly Procrusteans propose to build a bedstead of ample size, and then to secure a fit by stretching out their prospective lodgers. If the lodgers were all to be tall men, this idea might be very good, but it is scant wisdom where accomodations are professedly designed for all, and when at least half of the public are certain to be woefully "short...
...them that Sylvia has just repulsed Sigurd; he says that she really loves Leif. This surprises Leif greatly. He thinks that Sylvia can not love so worthless a fellow as himself, but Tyrker suggests that if Leif sails across the Atlantic and outdoes Bjarne, he will then be a fit husband...