Word: unfitness
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...both sentimentalists and experts were disappointed. Not one of the six starters completed the 90 miles. My Sin, Notre Dame and Tinker Toy broke down in the first heat. In the second heat, Notre Dame was unfit to start, Tinker Toy dropped out in the first lap, My Sin in the third. In the last 30 miles, Notre Dame finally got going, roared around at 66 m.p.h.-but it was too late. The cup went to the winner of the first two heats, Sidney Allen's Hotsy Totsy...
...years with Texas Corp., felt responsible. As the representative of Texas Corp.'s biggest single stockholder (estate of Empire Builder James J. Hill's son), Director Dunnington's opinion was important. Reluctantly, he felt that the chairman's tongue-wagging had made him unfit for so responsible a job. Solidly behind him were the company's other Manhattan directors, particularly Banker William Steele Gray Jr., Broker Henry Upham Harris, Charitarian Barklie Henry...
...included 20 other U. S. volunteers. They went out on 58 ski patrols, fought Russians 40 times, lost one dead and three wounded. Of some 500 U. S. and Canadian volunteers (including expatriate Finns) who got to Finland, about 40 saw front-line fighting, 14 were killed. Some were unfit for soldiering. Many needed training, were still getting it at camps in northern Finland when the war ended. In Finnish towns where they were sent to await shipment home, the volunteers were so royally treated that many stayed...
...that his Paula's past caught up with her in the end, the uniform reaction of audiences was one of shocked disapproval. Produced during the same year in London and New York, the Second Mrs. Tanqueray inspired much pulpitation, was condemned by critics as unfit for mother, brother, sister or wife. Not for a couple of years was it generally admitted that the Second Mrs. Tanqueray had made Pinero England's top-flight problem playwright...
Ours was the War Class. More properly speaking, it was a war class, for those before and after went, as we did, almost to a man. Some 90% of our class --or practically every man not rejected as physically unfit--served in our army or navy or in those of allied powers. The great majority volunteered while in college or immediately afterward. Of all who enlisted, more than half saw service in France or at sea in the face of the enemy--a proportion far larger than that of the army and navy as a whole. In proportion to members...