Word: unfitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Walker's personal character, when it has been submitted to minute analysis, is such that his opponents mark him unfit to sit in the Mayor's chair. The opinion is general that a man of Walker's strip is unthinkable for the chief magistracy of the greatest city in the world...
Captain Ludovici is convinced that sex equality is "a manifest absurdity." He calls for a rigorous Eugenics (including infanticide) ; for masculine will power, leadership and brains "sufficient to overshadow any female brain that is placed alongside;" for reversal of pres ent social values that enable the unfit to draw the fit down to their level; for the development of higher faculties in this new, robust man, especially psychic faculties...
...sales were increased rapidly, quantity production economies became possible and presently they were making more money on cheaper cars than before with higher prices. Motor manufacturers cannot stand still. Their motto is and must be: "Quantity production or bust!" The corollary to this process is the elimination of the unfit, and cheaper and cheaper prices to the car buyer...
...least a week. In high concentrations, such as were used, it is certain death, to breathe it without a mask; but although there were 150,000 casualties in the British Army from mustard gas, less than 1 in 40 died and about 1 in 200 became permanently unfit...
...graduates a certain number of men who have only technically qualified for a degree, on the other hand it develops some men of the highest intellectual ability, who more than justify the claim that the institution has really educated them. There is some insincerity in granting a degree to unfit men, but none, certainly, in claiming that real training can be imparted, given a willing student...