Word: unfitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...phrase, "in conference," to most people, educated by comic strips, signifies: "out playing golf," or "unfit to receive callers." Actually, of course, it means something else. It can be seen that the life of Thomas Fortune Ryan was, in its most important aspects, a succession of meetings with other men, an endless series of discussions and conversations, held in big, gloomy rooms, over lunch tables, or on street corners in Wall Street 40 years ago. Each of these conferences had its own specific results; as far as Thomas Fortune Ryan was concerned, the result was often an addition, large...
...police force. He compared the reports of new and old incumbents of the precincts. On the basis of later Grand Jury reports he suspended from office almost one half of the executive police officers-three out of five inspectors, 18 out of 43 captains. These men had been found "unfit to hold any position in the municipal government." Their bank accounts revealed "unexplained wealth" amounting...
Presiding at a debate was Prof. David Saville Muzzey, author of a U. S. history deemed pro-British and pernicious by "Big Bill" Thompson, and declared by him unfit for Chicago schools. Further his mayoral anglophobia would have been irritated by the fact that three of the debaters were British students...
...this address. The tone of your magazine is not only hostile but insulting to members of the Catholic Church as the scurrilous verse on page 4, issue of Oct. 8 proves. TIME was recommended to me by you as a magazine of high standard but I find it unfit to be placed in the hands of our teachers and pupils...
...violent altercation. Drawing closer he was able to discover that it was the cuisine aboard the U.S.S. Texas which was under discussion. Apparently everything was wrong with the chow. It seemed that the spuds had been grown in a swamp, the coffee fabricated from bilge-water, the beef unfit for the fishes, and the canned willie-words failed them, but not expletives...