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Tame Deer. It was tame deer that in spired Kurt Hahn to be a teacher. A psychologist might have classified the deer browsing listlessly in the park at Oxford's Magdalen College, as well adjusted. But to Hahn, they seemed "contentedly unfit,' lacking ambition even to jump the fence. Were most schools producing tame deer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Moral Equivalent | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...underground newsmen were not schooled in cost accounting. There were few good editors,reporters and deskmen, and the laws of natural selection weeded out the unfit amateurs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Crackup | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...Austria as part of a barter deal between Russian occupation forces and the Italians. Viennese really owed their thanks to a Soviet inspection officer who, it appeared, had never before seen a banana. The inspector had chomped a big bite of one-skin & all. Tasted horrible. His ruling: ". . . Unfit for Russian military personnel-dispose of them on the Austrian economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: De Gustibus . . . | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...knows much about the old three-story building behind Kirkland House. According to the University, it is "unfit for human habitation." But six students in the School of Design call it home and spend their spare time rebuilding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Rebuild 'Unlivable' House | 4/24/1948 | See Source »

...Toombs County, Ga., a herd of hogs was fattened up on three carloads of fruitcake-Army surplus, declared unfit for human consumption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Apr. 5, 1948 | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

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