Word: unfitness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Court bench began to bear fruit for the Democrats last week. Republican State Chairman Kingsland Macy, shocked and resentful, denounced the deal as "an unspeakable idea." The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, led by George Woodward Wickersham, flayed Senator Hofstadter as "unfit to hold judicial office" and got busy trying to frame an independent ticket. One item of the deal was that city Republicans were not to fuse with independent Democrats to beat Tammany but were to nominate a flabby figure of their own who could...
...Whither does this tremendous procession tend?" he asked last week in his presidential address. "Man was ethically unprepared for so great a bounty. In the slow evolution of morals he is still unfit for the tremendous responsibility it entails. The command of Nature has been put into his hands before he knows how to command himself. . . . So man finds this, that while he is enriched with a multitude of possessions and possibilities beyond his dreams, he is in great measure deprived of one inestimable blessing, the necessity of toil. . . . Where shall we look for a remedy? I cannot tell...
...large number of factors contribute to making the criminal. Many have important neuro logical aspects. One of the leading questions which must be investigated in this work is, what is the brain's adequacy for the purpose of social adjustment. ' The human brain may be rendered unfit to social adjustment by disease or faulty development, by improper training in the home or in the school, by harmful influence in childhood or in adolescence. Criminal tendencies and criminal acts may arise from any of these causes acting on the brain...
...sponsor a bus franchise to the financially irresponsible Equitable Coach Co., backed by a close friend, but did not know it was unfit to receive the award until later...
Potatoes normally contain about .06% of a poison principle called solanin. In potatoes which have lain partly above ground during growth or have sprouted during storage the solanin content may increase to a point where the potatoes are unfit to eat. Symptoms of potato poisoning are similar to those of ordinary food poisoning: chills, fever, headache, vomiting, diarrhea, such as Washington's picnickers experienced last week...