Word: unfitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that is necessary for the college's welfare is to determine which students are unfit for academic training at all; a drastically reduced grading system could do that. If he is merely playing around at Harvard, throw him out; if he is serious and has minimal aptitude leave him alone...
Claim Labor Unfit...
...Kenneth Wherry, the Republican whip, the ex-undertaker who wants to bury the New Deal; Illinois' C. Wayland ("Curly") Brooks, the old isolationist; Maine's Owen Brewster, who is itching to investigate wartime defense contracts. They smote Lilienthal as a New Dealer, as dictatorial, as unfit for such a high position. They were not the responsible Republican leadership. But Bob Taft, who is the real and responsible G.O.P. leader, didn't say no to the hatchetmen...
...Evans Hughes sat statuesquely for 45 minutes before intoning: "And now, lettest thou thy servant depart in peace." When Britain's wartime bomber chief, Lord Portal, appeared direct from the barber's chair, Karsh suggested they wait two weeks because a new haircut "automatically makes a photograph unfit for publication...
...U.S.S.R., in coal mines, lumber camps, vineyards, construction camps and factories, from Manchuria to the Urals, they labored for the glory of the new five-year plan. Shortly before the elections in Germany's Russian zone, Moscow released 120,000, but most of these were sickly, unskilled, or unfit for work. They made poor propaganda. "I wish he had never come back," said one wife; "month after month I have been waiting and now he sits there, staring at nothing, like a ghost." Last week the first of Russia's Japanese captives began to trickle home. The Russians...