Word: unfitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...divorced husband, Thompson Buchanan, who had himself meantime displayed an adventurous spirit by marrying Authoress Joan (Cradle of the Deep) Lowell. He marched into a Kentucky court, asked and got custody of his 9-year-old son and namesake on the ground that Seesodia-Warliker, no Caucasian, was unfit to keep...
...squirmed restlessly one day last fortnight during a Convocation of Canterbury (Church of England meeting) in London. Lean little Dr. Ernest William Barnes, famed "scientific bishop" of Birmingham, was shocking them once more. This time it was with proposals to reduce England's population 10% by sterilizing the unfit and teaching birth control to lower class women. Up jumped Bishop Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram of London, to cry that this was "rather off the mark." Suave Dr. Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, intervened and changed the subject...
...Unemployed Harvard Graduates, which, presumably, subscribes to the program of the Association, and which makes a few moderate requests of the college administration. These are men educated and mentally fitted for responsible positions of demonstrable value to the community. Yet that same training and capacity has rendered them unfit in the process of locating employment during a Depression. In order that protracted discouragement may not lead to despondent mental inaction, they would have the college open its graduate school, library, and gymnasium facilities, free of charge, to worthy impoverished graduates...
Under the Roosevelt plan the Department of Labor would recruit city jobless from municipal lodging houses, breadlines and relief agencies, enlisting them in a Civilian Conservation Corps for one year. The War Department would concentrate recruits at Army camps, weed out the physically unfit, equip the rest with rough civilian clothes and give them several weeks' disciplinary training before turning them over in organized units to the Department of Agriculture for transportation to the national forests. For work in the woods members of the C. C. C. would be paid not more than $1 per day, plus food, shelter...
...After the loss of the Three Eastern Provinces [Manchuria proper], I tried my best to remedy my faults, but the fall of Jehol convinced me I am unfit to keep command. I have not fulfilled my duties to the Government and my responsibilities to the people...