Word: unfit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sensitive to pyrethrum (insect powder.) and veratrine (obtained from the root of the Indian poke). Especially effective was a .5% mixture of veratrine and cocoanut oil. Applied to a live animal, this mixture killed the attacking fly immediately. Since there are great stretches of land in Zululand which are unfit for agriculture, protesters are advocating that some of this area be set aside as a game sanctuary. Separated from native villages and pastures by dikes and walls, wild animals would never come into contact with cattle. Similar reservations are already in existence in other African states. The largest is Kruger...
Many a shrewd, bitter, searching re-mark has been made about war behind war's back. Author Deval's remarks, no less bitter than most young soldiers' reminiscences, are cloaked in comic, Chaplinesque, sometimes clownish guise. Author Deval, short-sighted and unfit for fighting, spent most of the War in the Service of Supplies, saw little action at the front. Even at that, three of his comrades were killed by a shell within 50 yards of him; he himself was gassed...
...Harvard and West Point polo teams, scheduled to meet yesterday afternoon, will play instead today at 3 o'clock, at the Myopia Hunt Club in Hamilton. Recent rains made the field unfit to play on at the scheduled time...
TIME did not ask Father Walsh for general information about Russia, asked him two specific questions: i) What was the date of the cartoon which he described as unfit for public reproduction, but of which he mailed out 30,000 copies in a size larger than his pamphlet and in full color? What were the dates of the more ferocious Russian atrocities described in his pamphlet...
...Author. David Herbert Lawrence was born in Nottingham, England, in 1885, went to Nottingham High School, Nottingham University. In 1914 he married Frieda von Richthofen. Declared consumptive three times and unfit for service, he was hounded by the military police. After the War he left England, wandered through Europe, lived in Italy, Australia, now lives in the U. S., 15 miles from Taos, N. Mex. He was a great friend of the late great Katherine Mansfield, of her husband J. Middleton Murry...