Word: unfitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quite true that many students leave college after one term or one year, never to return. Usually, having found themselves unfit for college work, or uninterested, they enter business, and more often succeed well enough. The loss of four years at college does not seem to affect their business acumen, nor that of many who never attempt to go to college. Perhaps Dr. Ogilby's complaint comes from too high an esteem for a college degree, which may mean very little when secured, as is often, by a minimum of application to carefully chosen, easy courses...
...column on the day previous Mr. Brisbane had declared: "We are as unfit as Haiti to fight a modern nation." On six consecutive days, Mr. Brisbane, whose mass-public does not resent repetition of ideas, repeated the alarm...
...alone in his ire. From public print to public print the story went and was made much of, fondled by those who see in college the best kind of news, flutor unfit to print. Last Sunday the trivial little editorial was used as the text for a sermon. Perhaps is was only asking sanctuary, like the hero of Galsworthy's new play. At all events it received little. The gentleman of the clergy was strong in his denunciation. And he was not completely wrong...
...Jury was planned some years ago. A panel of several hundred jurors, intelligent citizens from all walks of life, was drawn. When a complaint was lodged a dozen of these jurors were delegated to judge the entertainment. If nine of the dozen found it, or any part of it, unfit, the whole or the part was to be withdrawn. The Producing Managers Association and the Actors Equity Association pledged themselves to enforce its decrees by withdrawing their plays or calling out their actors...
Packing a jury ; pseudo scientist ; rascal ; rogue ; scoundrel ; slacker ; suicide fiend ; syphilis ; thief ; tool of profiteers ; unfit to be trusted with money ; and villain...