Word: unfitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trickery, and deceit to achieve its ends and by self-appointed super-patriotic guardians is worse; for that means censorship, passion, and prejudice and the beginning of an academic lynch law. We have too little freedom in our universities now; some of them, like the University of Pittsburgh are unfit for any intellectually honest teacher and have sold out to big business. To permit the success of these efforts to ferret out so-called radicals with the students or teachers would be treason to the entire teaching profession. It is as base as it is un-American. Harvard, which, under...
Instantly 65-year-old Mahatma Gandhi reached for his pad of telegraph blanks, sent out a circular wire to leaders of the Indian National Congress, demanding a general mobilization of protest "since this child is unquestionably unfit to marry a man of such ripe years." Hindu reporters, most of whom have a sneaking sympathy for such bridegrooms, described the rejuvenated Hindu as "defiant," as "resolved to have his rights...
...again systems far loss significant than the tutorial have been harmed in their development because the long range goal has been lost sight of in the face of immediate dangers. There is no reason why Tutorial Aims cannot be achieved if each Department is empowered to weed out the unfit among both students and instructors...
...Indecent and immoral and unfit for public entertainment" were 36 "Class C" pictures including Affairs of a Gentleman, The Affairs of Cellini, Born to Be Bad, Catherine the Great, Dr. Monica, The Firebird, The Girl from Missouri, Little Man What Now, Madame du Barry, Nona, The Scarlet Empress, Of Human Bondage, One More River...
...small, aristocratic Williams, new President Tyler Dennett made his first big news in office by accompanying his refusal of aid with a thoroughgoing attack on the whole program. His arguments were the standard ones against government relief in any form: 1) It helps the unfit to survive. ''What appears to be needed is not more college graduates but fewer and better ones." 2) By accepting aid in an emergency, colleges will be demoralized into permanent dependence on the Government. "I therefore regard this procedure as little less than deplorable. I think it would be much better to request...