Word: unfitness
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...selected. In the years that followed, students packed the galleries to learn James Otis' lesson in revolution; and when revolution came, Holden again played its part. Colonial troops flooded into Cambridge, 160 of them squeezing into the tiny Chapel. When they finally rolled out, Holden was almost unfit...
...enough to test the mettle of any normally sedentary thinker. With black coffee and pleasant sophistry his reward, the scholar risked the crossing each day, sharpening his senses and developing trim reflexes. The Jungle ruled in Mass. Ave., and the Harvard man either emerged its master or, found unfit, was sent reeling, to eke out his $30 stay at Stillman...
...Chicago, the weekly magazine TV Today began listing the shows it thinks unfit for the tender eyes and ears of youngsters. Among the shows dubbed "Adult Only" and the reasons why: Bride & Groom ("Sacred rites of marriage handled on a commercial basis"); Pinky Lee Show ("Highly unmasculine performance"); Walter Winchell ("Vindictive, biased handling of the news"); My Little Margie ("Father of family constantly made to look like a simpleton"), and The Web, Suspense and Danger for containing "toughness and violence too strong for young minds...
...would take to go over Niagara Falls (American side). Very appropriate. The Niagara is fast becoming coffee-colored, and the State of New York seems willing to let it go at that, as the Water Pollution Control Board proposes to classify Niagara's east branch as "C Special" -unfit for drinking or swimming. Citizens along the river are delighted to have TIME choose the Niagara as a readily recognized symbol; we are trying to convince the state that the world's most famous river can and should be cleansed of industrial pollution. Drinking, swimming and fishing are almost...
...action of the Ecclesiastical Courts of England, nearly two thousand rectors and vicars, one-fifth of the total number, were expelled from their parishes on the ground that their refusal to renounce heresy rendered them "unfit for office." In the years which followed, they suffered penury and misery. But, by holding their ground, they, and others with them, so aroused the conscience of England that the Ecclesiastical Courts were abolished--three hundred years ago! Today, in the United States, teachers and others, on grounds of political heresy, are likewise being declared "unfit for office." How shall the conscience...