Word: unfitness
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Reading period has two functions: it provides time for study of entire books assigned in courses and it allows students an opportunity to review for exams. A week and a day is unfit for either task. First, faculty members have not promised any reduction in reading period assignments, and two days for each course allows just about enough time to familiarize a few lists of contents. Moreover, every invasion of reading period by long-winded lecturers--and there are many each year--will be more costly than ever...
...code also chastizes "any attempts to beat the rules, or to gain an advantage or win a game by circumvention of or disregard of the rules," terming the coach or player "unfit to be associated with the game of football...
Last week Stevenson had described himself as "temperamentally, physically and mentally" unfit for the presidency. When a friend asked him what he would do if the convention drafted him, he quipped: "Shoot myself, I guess." All the while, however, he never said he would not accept a draft, and his friends kept working furiously...
...instigation of another Communist stooge, France's Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Bonnard had set out to prove that the International Red Cross is actually a "tool of the western powers" and of "Swiss warmongers," is therefore unfit to investigate Red germ-warfare charges in Korea. Three weeks ago he was all set to take his "evidence" to the East Berlin World Peace Council when the Swiss Federal Police moved in at the Zurich airfield, grabbed his briefcase, and forwarded the contents to a court of inquiry. A government communique announced that Bonnard's papers contained...
...that matter, but I found I didn't care how they worked; I just liked to watch them." Then he was drafted into the Army where, Peepers-fashion, he spent four months misclassified as a foot soldier before the Army gave up and discharged him as physically unfit. Cox drifted aimlessly for the next six years, studying basket-weaving, working on farms, in factories and for a silversmith...