Word: misfits
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Someone put alcohol in Bernard Marx's blood surrogate while he was still in his bottle, and Bernard turned out a misfit. He took his Lenina to the feelies and to color organ concerts, danced with her to "Bottle songs" ("Bottle of mine, it's you I've always wanted . . ."), but he objected to sharing her with others. For that he was banished to Iceland. "Mr. Savage" was b --n on an Indian reservation of a real m ----r, and he too fell in love...
...other hand, there is not an ideal situation facing the educational world today. The hampering influence of the "four-year loafer" and misfit on his fellows is becoming generally recognized in educational circles. The need for a weeding-out process is essential if the universities and colleges are to be maintained as dispensaries of culture in the best meaning of the word. Herein then, lies the most cogent argument for the examination and here is a need, to eliminate the misfits from colleges, that no other agency has been invented to meet...
...State Senate, was never tried. Fortnight ago Col. Ewing (onetime Long supporter), incensed when the Governor had forced New Orleans banks to discontinue their municipal loans because the city would not support his $60,000,000 road bond issue,* called Governor Long "the little chincapin†-headed misfit...
...young men to think and then plunge them into so many activities that they have no time to think," is a charge made by the president of Lafayette. Secretary of the Interior Wilbur, who was for a long time a college president, declares that the standard college is a misfit in education and is a cumbersome mill, grinding material indiscriminately...
That every murderer, potential and actual, exhibits over-secretion of the thyroid gland; that every forger exhibits under-secretion of the pituitary gland; that every social misfit displays malsecretion of some gland...