Word: substandard
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...flat warning that their showing in battle would determine whether they would be sent home or kept in uniform, many a ranker, many a subaltern flubbed his battle shots. Through the maneuver area ran the rumor that when next week's battle was over the cleanout of substandard officers would be terrific-perhaps as high...
...Department's bill was open admission that the Quartermaster Corps had done a substandard job of housing soldiers, building flying fields, providing industrial facilities, storehouses, new roads and railway trackage for the great national defense emergency. It was recognition of what seemed an obvious fact: that the Engineers, staffed by the cream of West Point graduating classes of the past 20 years, buttressed by crack reservists and National Guardsmen from the country's best technical jobs, could do the job with vastly more efficiency...
Spokesmen for the War Department insisted that the discharge program was not planned with an eye on substandard morale. True as that might be, the undoubted fact was that it would have the effect of raising morale...
Hitler is merely an ex-guttersnipe, a mediocre little man with a mediocre mind, acting just as any fanatical, substandard person would act. . . . The fool cannot even see that he is destroying himself and his people. . . . Hitler is just a dirty gutter fighter. . . . We should set American science to work devising the most hellish instruments of defense the mind can conceive. . . . If a beneficent God, as we believe, cast an archangel into eternal fire, why should we be choosy about what we may have to do to Hitler the Horrible and his horde...
...Franklin Roosevelt the embarrassment of crossing an A. F. of L. picket line.* However, since waiters, cooks and bartenders at the Mayflower and twelve other Capital hotels had struck for a closed shop, Actors' Equity Association would have forbidden professional entertainers to appear; food & service would have been substandard; Secret Service men would have strenuously objected to the President risking a picket line, even had he been willing...