Word: fittingly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...vital, so alive, so circumspect in selecting the right word that I grieve at your continued use of the obsolete term Tycoon. Why not replace it with Big Shot? Everyone knows what Big Shot means. It is more than slang-it is part of the American language. It would fit in with your telling and picturesque phrases. And even the Big Shots rather thrill at the term Big Shot. E. G. KYTE...
...called together." War Whoop. Like an Indian war whoop rose Liberal King's instant challenge to Conservative Bennett's statement. Scarcely had the Prime Minister sat down when the ex-Prime Minister moved and read a scathing amendment: "This House regrets that the Government has seen fit at a special session called to deal only with unemployment to propose great increases in customs taxation on a wide range of commodities under circumstances which preclude this House and the country from securing adequate information regarding the proposals and present proper parliamentary discussion of them. "In the opinion of this...
...struggling to make the little army left to us by the Treaty of Versailles fit as possible for its task of defending the country. . . . That we are unable to devote more money than we have to the maneuvers clearly shows to what degree German disarmament has been carried out. While our western neighbor [France] a few weeks ago held two big maneuvers in each of which 50,000 men participated [TIME, Sept. 15], together more than the whole German army . . . our maneuver comprised one infantry division, one cavalry division, wooden cannons in place of heavy artillery, armored motor cars...
...idea. But in a year Eirick is back again; he was not meant for monkhood. As Olav grows older and more dour, as his sister's marriage ripens into tragedy and the burdens of the family increase, Eirick shoulders them all, quits himself like a man. Once in a fit of rage he almost falls from grace, is about to murder Olav. But his sister intervenes. Eirick avenges his father's murder more subtly, more Christianly. When old Olav lies dying, his secret still unconfessed, Eirick stands by his deathbed and forgives him. Then he goes to the monastery. This...
...reading and for observation of special methods and practice will be ample and valuable. The hours have been arranged to make it possible for teachers, school nurses, public health nurses, social workers and volunteers, whose interests already include work with the blind as well as for those wishing to fit themselves for service in this special field, to attend both the lectures and the demonstrations...