Word: unfit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enemy. Even while the invasion was going on in Norway, the Norwegian Government threw the whole Norwegian merchant fleet into the fight on the side of the Allies. Germany was able to seize only 20% of this fleet, about half of which [20%] were only small coastal craft unfit for the high seas. By royal decrees of April 22 and May 18, 1940, the Norwegian Government requisitioned all Norwegian ships of more than 500 tons...
...mass of experts needed on all fronts, but after six months there are still no national directives. Few people know which jobs are most vital and who can be spared for them. No attempt is being made to release potential combat power by supplying a stream of the physically unfit for civilian tasks. The possibility of preparing women to take over in the nation's offices and laboratories has scarcely been investigated. Individual colleges have spurred on ahead of the rest, but what is needed is not a "Yale plan" or a "Harvard plan" but a national plan with federal...
Asked about continuation of the Selective Service Act after the war, he declared that, not only was the system desirable in peacetime, but it might be used also to educate the illiterate and to build up the physically unfit which draft boards now turn down daily...
...visitors of the cemetery today care to linger over the tombs or even the magnificent Gothic, Matthewesque chapel. The original chapel began to decompose shortly after it was built, being unfit to bear exposure to the air of this variable climate. But the cemetery corporation had no trouble in securing an exact copy. Fronting the chapel is one of the most noticeable features of the cemetery--the Sphinx. The sculptor succeeded admirably in getting rid of the disturbing mystery that distinguishes its Egyptian counterpart. There are no foreign elements, such as beauty, in this Sphinx. From his vantage point...
...ordered a physical checkup of Los Angeles' 10,000 high-school seniors, directed that every senior must be in shipshape condition when he graduates in June. Needy students will get free medical and dental treatment. Seniors who qualify will get a certificate of fitness; those who remain unfit through their own fault will be flunked in physical education, may thereby fail to graduate...