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...Ladd case, the exception to tradition resulted from an inner-party feud. In the Sumner and Cummins instances, however, the precedent was circumvented because the Senate considered the proposed senator unfit for the position he was to occupy...

Author: By Robert H. Neuman, | Title: Proving the Rule | 3/17/1956 | See Source »

...were raised, mostly by their mother; the father ran out on the family when Audie was twelve. The boy quit school and went to work on a farm, and at 17 he enlisted in the Army. The Marines and the Navy had turned down the skinny little geezer as unfit for combat, and when he got to North Africa the boys in his platoon shook their heads. "That's real fresh meat, huh? . . . It's going to take two strong men to take care of him in action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Two Heroes | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

...them white. In 1665, the College moved the first university printing press in America from the President's office to the basement of the Indian College. There, the press turned out the Reverend John Eliot's famous Indian translation of the Bible. By 1676, the Indian College was declared unfit for human habitation and its residents moved out, although the printing press remained until...

Author: By I. DAVID Benkin, | Title: Indian College | 10/15/1955 | See Source »

...irradiated, probably by particles escaping from Hanford's chimneys. None of the present radiation is dangerous, thanks to AEC precautions, but if the radioactive material in the Columbia were allowed to reach the maximum level considered safe for ordinary drinking water, fish from the river would soon be unfit for food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Happy Ending | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

Earlier, the Divinity School student publication, The Scribe, had condemned the psychology test plan as a "trend toward conformity." The Scribe's editor, John Mr. Coffee, charged that the tests "would indicate that many who now are able to become theological students are 'maladjusted,' and hence unfit for the ministry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Divinity Students May Soon Take Psychology Tests | 4/21/1955 | See Source »

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