Word: unfitness
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...handed in a favorable report on the nomination of Mr. Jackson to the post of U. S. Solicitor General. Not in the least perturbed by the committee's minority view, that the characteristically Rooseveltian opinions Mr. Jackson has expressed in recent speeches and in Committee hearings made him unfit for the job, the Senate heard Nebraska's Norris say that he wished Mr. Jackson were being nominated for even higher office, shortly confirmed...
...always with us, and nobody has been able to demonstrate a way of succeeding in polities without some organized backing. Another discouraging factor is the illusion in the public mind that college presidents are dreamy, pensive fellows who have rusticated behind cloistered walls all their lives and hence are unfit to hold the reins of government. Mr. Wells himself seems to consider this idea in speaking of President Wilson, despite the fact that the ex-President of Princeton did manage to bring about a number of domestic reforms and put across a victory in France, albeit his Paris performance brought...
...trip. To disappointed hostesses he wrote mysteriously that he was stricken, that the greatest tragedy of his life had taken place. But observers who noted that he seemed as broad-shouldered as ever added an-other reason: Before Hitler took power, Count Keyserling had announced that the Nazis were unfit to rule, has been in official disfavor ever since...
Without foresight and planning the pre-medical student may find himself at the end of his Senior year unable to enter medical school. So, also, the pre-business student who falls to set an objective and plan ahead may find at graduation that he is unfit...
...Usually," said Lett in an interview yesterday, "oil wells are used commercially or are otherwise made unfit for scientific study. This is the chance of a lifetime...