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...progressively worse, and the same kind of air pollution has appeared in other parts of California. Chemist Philip A. Leighton of Stanford University believes that unless something drastic is done, smog will soon shroud most of the inhabited parts of the state. Other even gloomier prophets foresee a California unfit for human life...
Professional Mothers, Citizens Committees, government officials and other keepers of the Public Morality will surreptitiously sneak off to some dark corner to read the book and emerge officially outraged. They will declare Candy is obscene, lewd and unfit for civilized eyes...
...first licensed woman attorney in the U.S. In that same year, 1869, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Illinois State Bar's refusal to admit Mrs. Myra Bradwell with the observation that "the natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belong to the female sex evidently unfit it for many of the occupations of civil life." Today in the U.S., the woman lawyer lives and works in a society that has long since accepted a Myra Bradwell's right to practice law, but where many are still hesitant about taking their legal problems to an Arabella Mansfield...
...woman, and the ratio has changed little in the past 20 years. Some big firms refuse to hire women lawyers. Some judges are undisguisedly hostile to them. To most male lawyers, in fact, their sisters in the law seem about as welcome as a mother-in-law, unfit for trial work, suited only for matrimonial cases or such back-room fields as estates and trusts...
...that way. They embrace a program of competitions among individuals and individual groups like hockey teams, not among national teams. In the events that interest American kids the United States athletes performed creditably. There was not a trace of evidence that any American kids were physically unfit. Indeed, we never had a ski team half so thoroughly prepared...