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Word: unfitness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impossible job," says Westbrook. "The gestation period for rats is 21 days. A healthy female has a litter of twelve every four weeks. We have to kill constantly just to keep pace." The real solution lies in cleaning up the city and training residents to make their homes unfit for vermin. Westbrook is not optimistic. "Even if we had strict sanitation laws, it's doubtful that people would obey them," he says. "People around here are not accustomed to obeying laws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cities: Rats' Alley | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

Prosecutor: Didn't you know that it was an unfit word to use in front of children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obscenity: The English Lesson | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

...Institute, even though it withheld 25 prints as "unfit for public exhibition," has received phone calls complaining, in effect, that Picasso is a dirty old man and demanding that the exhibit be removed. But what matters about "347 Gravures" is that the old master proves he can still invest a female nude with classic grace by means of a single magical line. He doesn't do it every time-but then he never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Graphics: Erotica at 87 | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

...emergency fund-raising campaign that eventually allowed him to double faculty salaries. Full professors now earn up to $14,000, which is in line with faculty salaries at most private white colleges. Following his conviction that Negro applicants who score low on white-oriented aptitude tests are not necessarily unfit for college, he has relaxed entrance requirements, abandoned rigid grading and allowed students to proceed at their own pace, graduating in anywhere from three to six years. When critics suggest that he is indulging in "bargain basement" education, Cheek retorts: "We had not a thing in the world to lose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colleges: The New Black Presidents | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

...emerge as just one more post-Freudian snigger at the sexual vagaries of yesteryear. In a sense, such treatment would be warranted. Ruskin did, after all, get through six years of marriage without bedding his wife. He later asserted that he had come to feel that Effie was unfit to be a mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: If Sex Were All | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

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