Word: unfit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over 35 and cannot do six out of eight, you are physically unfit. So says National Physical Fitness Director John B. Kelly. If you are under 35, you should be able to do better...
...offices of the Woman's Home Companion last week as "Morons Into What?", the latest proposal by Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology, went on the Companion presses. In his article Professor Hooton advocates regulation of the American breeding stock and sterilization of all men and women unfit to produce good citizens...
America is China's ally. Americans say they love and admire the Chinese. But can you go to America, can you become citizens? No. Americans don't want you. They just want you to do their fighting. Their Exclusion Act names you and says you are unfit for American citizenship. If Generalissimo Chiang really has influence in America, why has he not had this stigma erased from American law? There will be no such discrimination against you in the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere...
...fathers, who are about to be drafted (TIME, May 17) are needed to fight, then it all makes sense. If, however, we are being called as replacements on the home front to do the work that might well be done by the unmarried, unfit (by present standards) or the WAACs and the WAVES who have gladly volunteered for such service, then it will not make sense...
Russian newspapers last week reported the capture of a German Ph.D. who had become an infantry man. He and his men had taken over a Russian village, where they seized cattle and grain, hanged six old men & women who were unfit for German work camps. Said the Herr Doktor to a Russian questioner: "We have no heroes. The German Army is an army of businessmen. We are simply thorough and conscientious employes of a great enterprise called The Eastern Campaign...