Word: unfitness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Final preparation for the Michigan game was somewhat hampered yesterday by the cold weather, which resulted in a frozen field unfit for practice; after a few minutes of kicking and passing in the Stadium, the team retired to the Briggs Cage, where the seconds put on Michigan plays and the first team put on their own formations...
...injured list were Mays and White, the only men not in uniform yesterday; they, however, watched the practice from the sidelines. White will definitely be out of the Springfield game this Saturday, while it seems likely that Mays will also be unfit for the game. In the team A backfield, Record played the entire afternoon in Batchelder's position, as the veteran back is letting down a trifle after his strenuous work on Saturday, when he played through the bulk of both games. Following the scrimmage the teams had signal practice with a white ball, until Horween called...
...dealing with the liquor problem in its own novel and peculiar fashion. At the beginning of the year a notice is sent to each student to the effect that all liquor within a radius of twenty miles of the college has been tested by the authorities and found unfit to drink. It is suggested that the students lay off the stuff too. Apparently no information is given as to where a one can get a decent drink, but presumably it is assumed that any bright boy with a college education ought to be able to find out such things...
Year and a half ago the Post Office Department designated Newark Municipal Airport as official eastern terminus for the transcontinental airmail. National Air Transport, operator of the New York-Cleveland-Chicago route, insisted the field was unfit for night landings of heavily loaded Douglas and Boeing ships, refused to move its base from Hadley Field, New Brunswick, N. J. While a three-cornered dispute was waged, New Yorkers continued to wait an extra 90 min. for airmail to be transported from distant Hadley Field to Manhattan's postoffices. Last week there was an air pageant of jubilation above Newark...
...behind were hundreds of other sheep, too wild to catch, hidden away in the island caves with the seamews and the puffins. Reason for the exodus: St. Kilda's new owner, the Marquess of Ailsa and the British Labor Government had both decided that bleak St. Kilda is unfit for human habitation. Said Lord Ailsa's son, Archibald Kennedy, Earl of Cassillis...