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Word: unfitness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard Teachers Union yesterday vigorously protested the appointment of Burton K. Wheeler as head of the League for Political Education on the grounds that the former Democratic senator from Mentana is "unfit" to conduct an enterprise of such vital importance to the labor movement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Teachers Protest Selection by AFL | 2/5/1948 | See Source »

...Kenary Unfit For Combat...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lewis, | Title: Harlow Reshuffles Squad to Find Possible Tiger Starters | 11/5/1947 | See Source »

...Next day PM's Albert Deutsch asked U.N. World Health Organization officials. Their verdict: "The means of propagating cholera make it absolutely unfit as a weapon of bacterial warfare." The Associated Press reported that Russia was sending anti-cholera serum to Egypt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: I'll Furnish the War | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

Numerous tackles of all shapes and sizes cavorted at Soldiers Field yesterday, but some of them, like Chet Pierce and large Verne Miller, were unfit for action tomorrow. At the end of the practice, Dick Harlow was wondering how long the others would last against the Big Gree. "I'm not exactly up in the clouds," was Dick's comment...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: Harlow Hunting Tackles as Big Green Hits Town Today | 10/24/1947 | See Source »

...former Vice-President called for the resignations of Secretary Forrestal and Assistant Secretary Lovett, charging that as former investment bankers they were unfit for high office at a time when their decisions may mean the difference between war and peace. he was correct in his assumption that a banker will retain a banker;s way of thinking after he has assumed government office. But the same could be said of any other profession. The decisions of even the most scrupulously honest administrators are influenced by their economic and social interests. The most valid attack on administration policy is to refute...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Great Gadfly | 10/3/1947 | See Source »

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