Word: unfitness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commission. Appreciating that self-criticism in business is as healthy as it is unusual, the 1,500 delegates in Denver's Broadway Theatre voiced approval as Mr. Patterson went on: "We have allowed to come in and remain in our business a horde of men unsuited and unfit for life insurance selling...
...because he is constantly in danger. Coupled with this, sailors and air force men find it easier to make a hit with the girls. So new applicants for the army are not only few but mostly down-and-out, therefore undernourished. Three out of five are rejected as physically unfit...
...afoul of the law with the play "Fiesta," by the New York playwright, Micheal Gold. The original manuscript of the work, a comedy of the Mexican Revolution is on view and next to it is a letter from the Boston board of censors indicating that it was "improper" and "unfit for presentation...
After criticizing the present licensing tests as impracticle for weeding out unfit applicants, Dr. DeSilva illustrated several of his tests with the aid of innocent victims from the audience. Sitting before a dashboard and steering wheel to simulate actual conditions, the driver was able to apply the brake within three-fourths second after a red light flashed on the dial. But when forced to keep an imaginary radiator in a narrow road projected before him, the operator experienced considerable difficulty...
...cases of bodies of U. S. soldiers, sailors and marines, Pennsylvania militiamen, and travelers; and persons dying of "smallpox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, meningitis, bubonic plague, typhus, yellow fever, cholera, leprosy, anthrax, glanders, erysipelas. Alcoholics, overweight bodies, mutilated or decomposed bodies must be buried by public authority because unfit...