Word: unfit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fighting cocks were fined $10 each; not because the contesting birds were automatically condemned to death in accordance with a proviso in the state law. They claimed that it was useless and cruel to kill the gamecocks by placing them in chambers filled with carbon monoxide gas, making them unfit to eat; that since gamecocks are carefully fed, housed and usually young, it would be kinder to wring their necks and donate the carcasses to the poor...
Although the automobile industry had a bad year and is facing another, last week the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce officially endorsed a plan which will cause its members to spend some $15,000,000. The expenditures will be for banishing unsafe and unfit automobiles by junking, thus making U. S. highways safer. During the year it is estimated that 400,000 cars, or about one for every ten sold, will be junked in addition to the small-scale junking that several companies already carry on. About 90% of U. S. auto makers are affected and each will formulate...
...Ihlamour wellhead. An officer barked commands. The soldiers fired ten rounds rapidly down the well. When the smoke cleared away Yusuf's duck was heard quacking irritably from the abyss. Superstitious Mussulmans fled from the neighborhood, claimed that the duck was bewitched. City authorities posted the well as unfit for drinking purposes. While Ihlamour city fathers concentrated on the problem of duck extraction, Ihlamour householders were forced to go nearly two miles to the nearest unpolluted well...
...Colt revolvers, possess summons books and can prosecute offenders in magistrate court. Their duties include the collecting of stray dogs who are then penned together in metal and concrete pens and given a killing dose of carbon dioxide gas if after 48 hours they are unclaimed or deemed unfit to be given away. A. S. P. C. A. agents, aided by state police, last week broke up a cock fight at Goshen, N. Y., arrested 125 men, rescued 49 cocks. Its revenue is derived from members' dues and donations, as well as dog owners' license fees. Yearly expenditures approximate...
Author Paul Alverdes, 33, writes from his own experience. The son of a German army officer, he volunteered at 17, served with the German artillery, early in the War was shot through the throat. After a year and a half in the hospital he was discharged as unfit for further service. He lives in Munich, whose university gave him his doctorate in philosophy; has written a book of verse, several novelettes and short stories, a tragedy based on the Ruhr Occupation. The Whistlers' Room was originally written (1928) as a contribution to a commemorative volume in honor of Poet...