Word: unfitness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...small quantity of the precious fluid upon an oaken stool, and seating himself there on-or therein. After contemplating the surrounding scenery for a fixed period he would attempt to rise. If the oaken seat adhered to the leathern seat of his breeches the ale was condemned as unfit for consumption-there was too much sugar in it. These notes were taken from a lecture on Medieval England, by Sir Bertram Windle, professor of anthropology in St. Michael's College in Toronto, Can., in 1922. ELIZABETH E. SCANTLEBURY...
...immediately poisonous, almost instantaneously fatal. Amyl alcohol is a by-product of ethyl, is an acrid, evil-smelling substance commonly known as fusel oil, and is a comparatively unimportant member of the alcohol family. Industrial alcohol is ethyl alcohol denatured by the addition of methyl alcohol to make it unfit for beverage purposes. There are other denaturants, such as sulphuric ether, turpentine, benzol and animal oil, but methyl is generally employed. Thus when unskillful persons unsuccessfully attempt to take the denaturing out of denatured alcohol, the familiar phenomena of wood alcohol poisoning usually result. Ethyl alcohol can theoretically be made...
...Denatured alcohol is made by adding to grain alcohol some substance which renders it unfit to drink. The denaturent is not always a poison (TIME, Nov. 26, Letters...
...Carleton, introducing the affirmative case, claimed that the jury is a static part of a dynamic society. A. L. Raffa ocC reported that it is based upon the common man and is essential to democracy: at which Rowe replied that "the ordinary, common man is common enough" and so unfit to judge questions of fact. J. E. Willard '30, attacking from a new angle, felt that "the jury system makes law the instrument of man, not man the instrument of law"; whereupon McBride announced that "there is no danger of tyranny today". H. A. Wolff '29, summing up, pleaded that...
...That good old institution whereby the youth of Boston has been preserved from the contaminating influence of modern literature is tottering on the edge of oblivion. The virgin purity of the children that so blithly play about the Frog Pond is now laid open to the nefarious advances of "unfit" literature...