Word: unfit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until last summer, when the Army decided not to look its gift horses in the mouth, bad teeth were the largest cause for rejecting drafted men (20.9% of rejected candidates). Now some 2,500,000 "dental cripples," whose teeth may unfit them for service at any time, are being drafted for the 11,000,000-man U.S. Army. Manhattan Dentist Charles L. Hyser has a plan, published last fortnight in Pepper Committee hearings, for making all 2,500,000 dental fit within a year, for about $25 apiece. Estimated average needs per man: two bridges, two extractions, five inlays...
...West Roxbury politician had introduced a resolution in the House which called Hooton a fascist who has been corrupting American youth for over a generation. He quoted the noted anthropologist as having called democracy "government of the unfit, by the unfit, and for the unfit," and saying that the Declaration of Independence was a "pathetic document...
...cardiotachometer, which picks up through chest electrodes the electrical variations that accompany each heart beat. This technique couldn't be applied extensively for practical purposes, but fortunately, part of the test conclusions also showed that there are differences in the heart rate after exercise of a fit and unfit person. Drs. Robert E. Johnson, Robert Darling, and Brouha found that it was possible to get a satisfactory estimate of general fitness by measuring the heart rate at three convenient intervals during recovery after work. And a general formula was worked out by which a "fitness index" is defined as duration...
...than no policy, applauded. If the youth draft did not settle the wartime fate of the 1,700 U.S. colleges (enrollment: about 1,120,000), it set the stage for a settlement. Cleared up was the question: who would go to college-only men in uniform and the physically unfit. A battle over a big remaining question began behind closed doors in Washington: Who would run the colleges, the Army & Navy or civilians...
...charged the Schechter Bros, of Brooklyn with selling unfit poultry and otherwise breaking the Live Poultry Code; in 1935 the Supreme Court's decision on this famed test case made the Blue Eagle a very dead bird...