Word: fittingly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...having come to Harvard from all over the United States, men of different capacities, aspirations and beliefs, having had different advantages and different experiences, all entering the University presumably for a purpose. In some cases the purpose is a very vague one--to get a general education to fit one for a life of which he knows little or nothing; in others, the field is starred and the student is looking for special preparation. In those who have no serious purpose, but who look upon college as a place merely to have a good time, we are not particularly interested...
...There is no water fit to drink. The water works are demolished, the river is a sea of mud and the dead are still uncounted. Floods have washed out the newly buried dead in the cemeteries and coffins float around like corks. . . . Concrete cisterns are being used as funeral pyres, cremating as many as fifty bodies at a time. Even at a distance of ten miles . . . it was apparent that bodies were being burned. When we landed we could see wagons pass by loaded with dead. The drivers would stop and curse and cry: 'More dead, more dead...
...ANYTHING, with the idea in mind of creating a purchasing power. Sounds fishy, doesn't it, Mr. Business Man? No, Quite to the contrary. The only strings attached, if they may be termed so, were, first, that each employe might spend this sum as he saw fit EXCEPT this sum must not be used as the first payment of any article on the installment plan; secondly, that each employe present him with an itemized statement of all purchases. Such a proposition, of course, cost Mr. Muchenberger a huge sum of money. But don't you think...
...post in the Cabinet before inauguration. Each time President Hoover named a new commission, Mr. Robinson's name bobbed up in White House gossip as a leading candidate for membership. But, somehow, Mr. Robinson never seemed able to swing into a niche. Last week, however, the President did fit him neatly into the National Drought Commission...
...might have been successful, but the joy of acting had so gripped Jenny's introvertive nature that she could not fight herself free from theatricality. For many difficult months she played to him, consciously and unconsciously, to hide her hardness. She even deserted the stage and sought to fit herself into his circumscribed, stiff circle. But memory of past adulation, fancies of future triumphs were too strong. When an influenza epidemic crippled her old company, she temporarily returned. Nico discovered this the evening he contracted the disease. With fever-bright intuition he understood her history, her strange, wavering duplicity...