Word: unfit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week came a distinctly new angle on the forbidding duck-shaped island of the north. Source: 16 unpoetical Canadian soldiers who, after a stint in Iceland, had deteriorated to Class E, unfit for active service (mostly stomach ulcers), and had been repatriated to Canada, accidentally by way of the British Isles...
...show imagination or initiative. Theirs is to get to work at 9 a.m. and quit at 4:30 p.m., like automatons, and to draw their pay until death parts them from the payroll. They are not inspiring Government servants-but they are a lot better than unfit spoilsmen who fill Government offices with ward heelers and live by political preferment...
...full force will take some four years to effect. But Ramspeck estimated that about 25% of those Government workers now employed will fail to pass the required noncompetitive examination, must then be dropped within six months. Thus the Government will slough off some 50,000 workers as incompetent or unfit, 5% of all U. S. employes...
...present campaign. His vote was recorded against the A.A.A., against the Wagner Labor Act, against the Social Security Act. Of the federal legislation to ameliorate the acute problem of inadequate housing for one-third of the nation, all he had to say was that "God made these people unfit to live in better dwellings." Here is a man who has closed his eyes to every evil and abuse in our society. Here is a man who has apparently read and learned nothing since the appearance of Herbert Spencer's Social Statistics in 1859. Here is a man who would write...
...century music played, and not enough seventeenth and eighteenth. There is too much repeating, even within this limited field, of a stock routine of standard works, not enough probing into minor musical literature. It is true, of course, that classical and pre-classical music exists largely in small forms, unfit for the symphony orchestra. But there are over a hundred symphonics by Haydn, suites from Bach, Telemann, and Handel. Why should we be forced to listen to ten performances of the Tchaikowski Pathetique for every one of the Mozart E-flat? Is it because classical music is comparatively quiet...