Word: unfitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor Roosevelt is used to hearing that he is unfit to lead the Democracy. Last week at Albany he parried the Smith attack thus: "I'll tell you a funny one. A friend of mine called from New York today and said: 'Wasn't that a terrible attack Al Smith made on "Alfalfa Bill" Murray...
...although according to the Washington Conference, there are articles especially designed against their use. Lachrymators such as xylyl bromide, and the common tear gases never cause a fatality, but completely disable all combatants. Tear gas forces men to close their eyes and causes irritation sufficient to make an army unfit for service...
...Squelched children are the cause of most psychological maladjustments. Ninety-eight per cent of American mothers so thoroughly suppress their children before the age of six that they are unfit for the strife that is a rule of the world. Their first instinct, that of hunger, is denied when they are punished for eating a cookie between meals; then their acquisition instinct is curbed when they are unable to understand that a diamond bracelet is more valuable than a rocking horse. When the sex instinct makes its appearance, it is unhealthily denied by the parent's explaining as my parents...
...Manhattan, at a symposium in connection with an exhibition of "international style" architecture (TIME, Feb. 22) Lewis Mumford, famed author-critic, spoke up last week and said U. S. architects are "unfit to build houses for the America of the future unless they are able to plan as if working for a Communist government." Amplification of his remark was less dramatic. He explained that he meant the building of the future will be large-scale slum reclamation and large-scale cheap housing rather than work for the choosy individual...
...hint of the course the Hitlerites may pursue if they come into power in Germany was given recently in a speech by a party member to a group of Nazi medical men. Suppression of the "inferior" races of the republic, banishment of the Jews, wholesale sterilization of the "unfit," and other measures to insure Teutonic supremacy are part of the program. The fact that the Germans, for all their race consciousness, are far from being a pure stock, evidently did not occur to the speaker...