Word: unfitness
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Many undergraduates who signed up for the mid-April drive here were prevented from giving by an epidemic of colds which struck the University immediately after vacation. About 70 prospective donors either could not meet their appointments or were rejected as physically unfit at the time...
...Augusta, Me., millionaire Textile Manufacturer Allen I. Goldfine recoiled sadly from his wife, his lesser relatives and their charge that his "drinking and debauchery" and "unreasonable charitable contributions" had made him unfit to run his mills. After explaining that he had been a "drinking man since I was 13," he told the court: "We have so much money we don't know what to do with it-that's the trouble with the Goldfines...
...before, and constantly growing, the U.S. has fewer public-school teachers than it had in 1939. Of these teachers many are pitifully ill-trained "emergency" amateurs. (The film shows the too common spectacle of a teacher unable to work a problem she has given students.) Still others are psychologically unfit to teach (the film shows a stupid teacher calling a pupil stupid...
Conclusion. In Jackson, Mich., police took a good look at the Leslie High School bus, pronounced it unfit for service: poor tires, defective brakes, loose front left wheel, loose steering mechanism, cracked windshield, no muffler, no emergency brake, no tail pipe, no horn, no first...
...More than 10% of its draft-age men were mentally unfit for military service. (Farm boys generally were less mentally fit than city boys...