Word: unfit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Memorial is now using water from the well, as that furnished by the city is unfit...
...charged that the Jeannette was unseaworthy and wholly unfit for an Arctic voyage...
...them in manners and learning to become our worthy representatives abroad, our politics at home would become purer and more dignified, the cry for civil service reform would in a great measure cease, and we should no longer be disgraced abroad, as we have so often been, by men unfit to be our agents. Though Harvard cannot take the initiatory step in this direction, she can at least follow the good example which has been set her. By founding such a school as we have spoken of let her be among the first to try to regenerate and lend vigor...
...Columbia College Bicycle Club will probably give no games this winter, as Gilmore's Garden is undergoing repair, and is consequently temporarily unfit for use. It is a matter of regret, as our representatives have done well there for the past two years...
...does, of its members a belief in particular doctrines of certain sects. It saw that its constitution, as it stood, practically declared that unless a man believe the peculiar doctrines laid down in it, he cannot be expected to do the work of a good man, and is, therefore, unfit to be a member of the society. A movement was therefore set on foot to amend the constitution so as to admit men into the society whose character could not be impeached, whose membership the society would have reason to be proud of, but who have the misfortune to differ...