Word: unfitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...location for the displaced handball courts, it has been decided to tear down the old bowling alleys and erect new courts in their place. Ever since the war time period when these alleys were used as a storeroom, they have been unfit for play and their removal will make room for the five new handball courts. The present boxing room will also be transformed into courts, it being expected that at least four small-sized playing areas can belayed off there...
...from the Harvard bench. In short, the baseball players from America's oldest university play ball with the spirit that it is pleasure to meet another college in honest conflict and because the college is opposing them does not of necessity indicate that its athletes are burglars halfwits, or unfit for the society of the ordinary run of human beings...
This I admit is quite beside the point. The real question is whether Mr. Palmer has any right to apply the words "unfit" and "unfair" to the judges who were selected. Surely their prominence in the community would not lead us to suspect that he is right. All three of the gentlemen in question are well known, and would seem to command the respect and confidence of their fellow citizens. Their disqualifications for such a position seem to have occurred only to Mr. Palmer. His first specification is that they are all New Englanders. This is not quite true literally...
...completely in accord with the Institution and ideas which the Harvard team stood for and are completely in discord with the principles that the team from the West brings with them," he is not even correct in his premise, which renders his rather violent conclusion that therefore they were unfit and would act unfairly, distasteful to believers in fair play...
...shift, and it has been some years since the crews have had to resort to it. although in former years they have used the Farragut Boat Club's house, this year they are unable to do so because the snow crushed in the roof and made the boat house unfit for present use. As soon as the Charles is open, however, the crews will resume regular practice without the inconvenience of going to Lynn...