Word: unfitting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Freshman debate last night on the question: "Resolved, That a college education does not unfit a man for business life," was won by P. R. Ammidon, C. S. Fachrach and J. L. Galey, who supported the affirmative...
...which someone has been guilty. On Sunday at dinner there was no meat served, but, in its stead, chicken croquettes. On inquiry I find that about four men out of every five who ate the croquettes were severely ill as a result--so ill as to be practically unfit for work next day. The steward evidently did not know, or did not take the trouble to remember, that meat may rot and become poisonous. But it is the steward's duty to look out for such things and his negligence in not having done so is unpardonable. The fact that...
...coach would have to assume additional responsibilities. He should be made to bear the bulk of the blame for any error in the selection of the judges or for the use of a man on the team who has shown himself, in the course of training, to be unfit for the contest. Under the present system the coach is in danger of being blamed for shortcomings, on the part of the members of the team, which he cannot avoid...
...Falstaff as he was and gives him credit for his wonderfully brilliant wit and sense of humor, but he also shows him as unprincipled, selfish, egotistical and vulgar, and, in the end, the prince sees through Falstaff's frivolity and sham, recognizes his utter worthlessness and condemns him as unfit for the society of true...