Word: unfitness
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...ragged collectivism? . . . We've taken better care of the idiot than we have of the genius. We have coddled the moron and starved the intelligent. Those with the divine spark we have neglected, while we've lavished money and training upon the pinheads. . . . Social legislation begs the unfit to become more unfit and cordially invites the fit to stop the struggle and vegetate...
...years ago, for reasons of economy, the Navy airship Los Angeles was decommissioned, stripped of engines and helium, placed in dead storage at Lakehurst, N. J. Last week, all skin & bones, the 10-year-old "L. A." was declared unfit for further flight because of deterioration of her metal structure. Of the world's rigid dirigible airships she was the first to die of natural...
...past? 2) Should Senator Smith get the patronage he demanded from the White House? After President Roosevelt had failed to appoint one Reuben Gosnell as U. S. Marshal in western South Carolina, Senator Smith developed a violent feeling that Dr. Tugwell, not being a dirt farmer, was unfit to be the first man to fill the brand new office of Undersecretary of Agriculture. Both practical questions were answered in the affirmative. At the last minute, while Dr. Tugwell's fate hung in the balance, Reuben Gosnell's appointment came through to the Capitol. Although Senator Smith had committed...
...Trumpet Blows-produced by Paramount. . . . The absolutely unwholesome and unattractive George Raft is the 'hero,' loose in his relationship with women and a thorough no-account. . . . It is unfit for any decent person to see or approve. . . . Protest to Paramount Studios, Hollywood, California. Protest to George Raft, same address...
...Glueck says they "call for a more effective control of marriage and for eugenical measures in the way of sound and safe sterilization of extremely unfit parents and the giving of professional advice regarding contraception...