Word: unfit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Territorial Commanders. By 1928, 72-year-old General Bramwell Booth was so broken in health that the Army became a regency administered by Chief of Staff Edward J. Higgins. At a tense meeting of the High Council of Army leaders from all over the world, Bramwell was ousted as unfit to hold office. Higgins was elected general-by 44 votes to 17 for Evangeline...
...York World-Telegram was whooping up its favorite hot-weather story: pollution of Manhattan's beaches. The U.S. Public Health Service, said the World-Telegram, considers any water with a count of more than 1,000 coliform bacteria (pollution by sewage) per 100 cubic centimeters (a large mouthful) unfit for bathing. Samples from Coney Island and Staten Island ran above 6,900. The East River...
Tame Deer. It was tame deer that in spired Kurt Hahn to be a teacher. A psychologist might have classified the deer browsing listlessly in the park at Oxford's Magdalen College, as well adjusted. But to Hahn, they seemed "contentedly unfit,' lacking ambition even to jump the fence. Were most schools producing tame deer...
Turning to Plato's Republic for guidance, young Hahn designed a stern academy to "molest" the contentedly unfit.* In 1920, in the castle of Prince Max of Baden, last Imperial chancellor, Hahn took the Prince's son and three neighborhood children as his first pupils. By the time Hitler forced him into exile...
...underground newsmen were not schooled in cost accounting. There were few good editors,reporters and deskmen, and the laws of natural selection weeded out the unfit amateurs...