Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three college R.O.T.C. commanders have turned down the book "Time for Decision. Yale thought it was below the dignity of its students, and Colonel Charles P. Summerall of Harvard, professor of Military Science, "saw fit not to distribute it." The commander at Rhode Island State College was the latest to object...
...cuts, absences from Cambridge, etc, for the purpose of having at all times exact data so that it might give warnings to individuals, teams, etc." Gone are the days too when it was, constitutionally, an arm of the Faculty, designed "to execute all further powers the Faculty might see fit to grant...
Hoary Lesson. New Senator Nixon may have been right in his interpretation of the election in California (where left-leaning Jimmy Roosevelt was also overwhelmed by Governor Warren), but his conclusion did not necessarily fit the election results across the nation. They were more nearly an expression of annoyance at the Fair Deal, a surfeit of Democrats and their ways, and a general sense of being put upon. Voters on the whole decided they preferred Senators with independent minds to stooges of the Administration or of labor bosses...
...World War II, the U.S. armed forces had passed over 6,419,700 4-Fs on the theory that they were not physically fit for general military service. This was a waste of valuable manpower, argued Colonel Warner Bowers, chief surgical consultant for the Army, last week. Most 4-Fs could have been used for less strenuous service behind the lines. His recommendation: abolish the 4-F category, classify such men for special limited duty, defer them until they are needed...
...condition of his rule that he shall spend his life in trying to impress the 'natives,' and so in every crisis he has got to do what the 'natives' expect of him. He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit...