Word: unfitness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...merely said that they had no advantage in personality over the students of other colleges as they had in scholastic discipline. Reports range all the way from mild modifications of what I did say to an out-and-out declaration on my part that they were inferior and unfit to study medicine. However, things like this will happen...
There is, of course, a second examination into his character after his graduation from law school before he is admitted to the Bar, and this preliminary investigation is merely to prevent three or four years of useless law study for those obviously unfit...
Iowa's State College of Agriculture & Mechanic Arts is coeducational. So are similar colleges of Michigan, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana. Oklahoma and many another State. But for more than 53 years A. & M. College of Texas near Bryan has matriculated only men. Its directors think women unfit for its courses and the careers to which they lead...
...chaffering, all including most farraginous chronicle" is James Joyce's definition of his Ulysses, a book which many a critic considers the most important novel of its generation. Whether Ulysses is also "immoral and obscene" and therefore unfit for U. S. readers was the question which Manhattan's Federal Judge John M. Woolsey last week was ready to answer in the extraordinary case of "The U. S. vs. One Book Entitled Ulysses...
...Montevideo, Uruguay, 500 tuberculous hospital patients declared that their food was unfit to eat, went on a hunger strike. Doctors & nurses insisted the food was good, induced them to break the strike after two days. Few hours after their first meal most of the patients, all the doctors & nurses were stricken with ptomaine poisoning...