Word: unfit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mass, derived from the words of Christ at the Last Supper and given its present strict form in the 7th Century, has inspired some of the world's finest music. But many of the greatest musical Masses, for one reason or another, have been deemed by the Church unfit for liturgical use. The unapproved list includes Bach's famous B Minor Mass, the Missa Solemnis of Beethoven, Masses by Haydn, Mozart and many other great composers...
...mentally unfit should be barred from service because: 1) contrary to lay belief, discipline will not cure what ails them; 2) the services must not be hampered by the mentally unfit any more than by people with tuberculosis or punctured eardrums...
...Both processing plants and storage houses were awash with eggs. The eggs sold for feed were unfit for human consumption but would help relieve a critical feed shortage...
With the average age of each of its members now at 47, Harvard's 25th reunion Class of 1919 has 92 of its 630 members serving in the Armed Forces. All of the 92 served in the first World War, except one, who was then physically unfit for service. Of the original 724 in the class, 87 are now dead and seven are unaccounted...
Poor leadership, which causes unnecessary casualties and "a weakness of the whole fabric of the fighting Army" will have to be eliminated, says Baldwin, before western Europe is invaded. According to Baldwin this major job must first be done: "the unfit, inept, 'stuffed-shirt' and inefficient leaders [must be replaced] with good leadership . . . to build up a pride of outfit in the country's many untested divisions, the divisions that on the war's greatest D-day will hold the future in their hands...