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Word: unfitness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chuck") Gardiner, died of a brain tumor last summer. To bolster their scoring attack, the Black Hawks traded Defenseman Lionel Conacher for speedy Forward Howie Morenz of the Montreal Canadiens. Irvin ("Ace") Bailey, Toronto Maple Leaf star who was nearly killed in a game early last season, was still unfit for play last week. The New York Rangers had a crop of new forwards, one of whom is Manager Lester Patrick's Son Lynn, making his professional début. In Boston, Lester Patrick's Brother Frank, with a new job as manager, planned to make a star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Start on Ice | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

...socialist scum. As late as 1929, Lord Londonderry publicly hoped that Prime Minister MacDonald would lose his parliamentary seat in Seaham, where his miner constituents dig Londonderry coal. Two years later Lord Londonderry exploded that the last Labor Cabinet headed by Scot MacDonald "is clinging like limpets to office . . . unfit to govern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Seducers & Spaniards | 11/12/1934 | See Source »

...previous group of ballots a number of the voters declared themselves unfit or incapable of deciding on the Now Deal question, which read "Do you feel that the policies of the Roosevelt administration offer a satisfactory method of Recovery?" On the governorship fight most were able to decide

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lead of Bacon Diminishes in Faculty Ballot on Campaign for Governorship | 10/30/1934 | See Source »

...ragged collectivism? . . . We've taken better care of the idiot than we have of the genius. We have coddled the moron and starved the intelligent. Those with the divine spark we have neglected, while we've lavished money and training upon the pinheads. . . . Social legislation begs the unfit to become more unfit and cordially invites the fit to stop the struggle and vegetate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Openers | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

...years ago, for reasons of economy, the Navy airship Los Angeles was decommissioned, stripped of engines and helium, placed in dead storage at Lakehurst, N. J. Last week, all skin & bones, the 10-year-old "L. A." was declared unfit for further flight because of deterioration of her metal structure. Of the world's rigid dirigible airships she was the first to die of natural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Last of the L. A. | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

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