Word: unfitness
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Under the Roosevelt plan the Department of Labor would recruit city jobless from municipal lodging houses, breadlines and relief agencies, enlisting them in a Civilian Conservation Corps for one year. The War Department would concentrate recruits at Army camps, weed out the physically unfit, equip the rest with rough civilian clothes and give them several weeks' disciplinary training before turning them over in organized units to the Department of Agriculture for transportation to the national forests. For work in the woods members of the C. C. C. would be paid not more than $1 per day, plus food, shelter...
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...After the loss of the Three Eastern Provinces [Manchuria proper], I tried my best to remedy my faults, but the fall of Jehol convinced me I am unfit to keep command. I have not fulfilled my duties to the Government and my responsibilities to the people...
...Reichstag building when small, bespectacled, aging Socialist Paul Lobe tried to call the Reichstag Committee for Protection of Civil Rights to order as its chairman he was shoved out of the chair by six-foot Nazi Lawyer Hans Frank who shouted: "You Marxist liar! You're unfit to preside. I declare myself chairman!" As Socialist, Communist and Centrist committeemen stalked out, one of them lit a cigar, had it wrenched from his teeth by a Nazi who cried: "Show respect to the Chairman...
...field now required for distinction--preferring rather to distribute their courses more liberally than the honors candidates. If a suggested revision of the tutorial plan were to prejudice their opportunity for tutorial work, I should be much disappointed. I favor simply the exclusion from tutorial of the obviously unfit for example, the exclusion of all students on probation or near...