Word: unfit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...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...