Word: unfitness
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...chaffering, all including most farraginous chronicle" is James Joyce's definition of his Ulysses, a book which many a critic considers the most important novel of its generation. Whether Ulysses is also "immoral and obscene" and therefore unfit for U. S. readers was the question which Manhattan's Federal Judge John M. Woolsey last week was ready to answer in the extraordinary case of "The U. S. vs. One Book Entitled Ulysses...
...Montevideo, Uruguay, 500 tuberculous hospital patients declared that their food was unfit to eat, went on a hunger strike. Doctors & nurses insisted the food was good, induced them to break the strike after two days. Few hours after their first meal most of the patients, all the doctors & nurses were stricken with ptomaine poisoning...
...rising generations. An example of this is included in the account of "the progress of learning in the College of Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay" which contained an article to the effect that "none shall, under any pretence whatsoever, frequent the company and society of such men as lead an unfit and dissolute life...
...caused the timbers to swell and buckle. The back frame is made of square timbers of about three inches in thickness, set up vertically and horizontally about nine inches apart. On swelling, the horizontal tim- bers forced the vertical ones out, caused the whole wall to buckle, and become unfit for play, and necessitated a complete rebuilding of the wall by the University Maintenance Department. Investigation reveals that this is an unusual circumstance in a court only three years old, one which can be laid to faulty construction resulting from using improperly dried woods...
...first desideratum is to examine more closely the records and capabilities of applicants for admission, to reject those who are unprepared or unfit for advanced work of any sort. The Graduate School today is clogged up with men who have chosen scholarship as an easy way to support themselves, who have no impetus to their work except a professional and economic one, who will reach their intellectual peak when they are given their degree. Naturally, graduate study is professional, but in the arts and sciences, it ought to spring from a full-blooded and passionate interest in one or more...