Word: unfit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, four days after his record-smashing race, 25-year-old Greg Rice, recently voted foremost U. S. amateur athlete, was declared physically unfit for the U. S. Army. Reason: triple hernia...
...That they could have predicted in advance what Selective Service administrators have found-20% of training candidates are unfit because of poor teeth...
Harvard athletic records, indicating that ninety per cent of the undergraduates are participating in the College sports program, give assurance that "we need not worry about the youth of today becoming soft or unfit for whatever share they may have to take in the national defense program." Dr. Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, head of the Harvard Department of Hygiene, stated yesterday in his annual report...
...Malta could be made "ready for storming" by Stukas alone. The Rome radio said: "British navigation in the Mediterranean may become a practical impossibility. . . . The first definite change for the worse will come when the base of Malta is completely dismantled and the port and airports are made absolutely unfit for service. To achieve this, air activity over Malta will be intensified to such a pitch that no breathing space would be allowed between raids...
...mechanisms through which abnormal responses of the body occur, under conditions of stress, are little known and represent an important research opportunity. In considering the problem of abnormal responses of the body I do not refer to the unfit among us, but rather...