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...Government, alarmed by the draft's showing-that half the nation's young men are ill-toothed, nearsighted, addlepated or otherwise unfit-last week took steps to improve the physique of U.S. manhood. The start of the cure was announced by Franklin Roosevelt...
William Howard Taft had been one of the seven former presidents of the American Bar Association (including Elihu Root) who had signed a petition in 1916 to the Senate Judiciary Committee declaring that Louis Dembitz Brandeis was unfit to serve as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court...
...concerned," said he, "ours still is a popgun arsenal." Of the President's report, Clapper wrote: "The figures ... are large. In terms of deliveries they shrink like a pair of wool socks in the laundry. . . . For a time, 25% of the eggs we sent arrived in England unfit to eat. . . . Children are not receiving the milk their bodies need. . . . Shipments to the British Empire in July of last year were . . . more than those of July this year...
Peabody suffered a body injury during Monday's scrimmage and at that time it was thought that the veteran guard would be unfit for action for some time. However, his quick return keeps Harvard's line intact as a seasoned powerhouse...
...more immediately cogent reason than either of these was the decisive steps the Army was taking to purge itself of two kinds of bad soldiers: 1) unfit officers; 2 ) enlisted men who think they ought to go home...