Word: unfitness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Recently draft boards and induction centers have been forced to reject as unfit 46% of all men between 18 and 38. "An increase in these rejection rates can be expected as men in older age groups, men living with their families, are called...
...Among U.S. males of 18, who should be at the peak of good health, one out of four up for induction is unfit for combat...
...full-blooded Indians.) There are about a million people of Mexican extraction in Texas. In much of the State they are forced to ride in Jim Crow cars, use Jim Crow toilets, go to separate "Spik" schools and restaurants. Even Mexican consuls have been treated as if they were unfit to associate with any white Texan...
...successful lecturer at the University of California, he resigned when invited to lecture on higher mathematics and logic at Manhattan's City College in 1940. Presently he saw his invitation nullified: Episcopal Bishop William Thomas Manning charged that Russell, unorthodox on sex questions (Marriage and Morals), was morally unfit to teach; Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia pulled Russell's professorial chair out from under him by unbudgeting his salary...
Sometimes a recruit being examined by psychiatrists is truculent, has a chip-on-the-shoulder attitude. Navy psychiatrists have learned by experience that such a recruit is not necessarily a psychiatric personality unfit for service; he may be a perfectly normal guy from Brooklyn. Says the New York State Journal of Medicine, the Navy doctors have christened this "harmless social pattern" the "Brooklyn syndrome [set of symptoms...