Word: unfitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average U.S. student is "overeducated . . . one who thinks he knows all the answers." The critic was Chicago's Edwin R. Embree, president of the Julius Rosenwald Fund. Added Dr. Embree: the average U.S. undergraduate lacks curiosity, has little or no understanding of his own motivations, is intellectually unfit to have a vote in world affairs. The cause: too much natural science, "too much fealty to the rote of the textbook." Suggested improvement: more attention to the social and psychological sciences...
They were full of resentments. Most of all, they resented the bombing of their homes and cities. The Americans, they felt, had gone much too far beyond the evident necessities of war. Deep in many a German heart, the conviction grew that Americans were unfit for human society...
...impossible to fatten enough cattle and hogs, even if prices make fattening profitable-light beef of inferior quality may be forced on the market when ranges dry up. Conversely, if the weather continues wet and the corn fails to harden before frost, there may be so much soft corn, unfit for storage, that too many cattle will be kept on that cheap feed instead of going to market...
Some 700,000 more-disabled, overage and others-will also be released in the coming year. (The Navy will comb out about 25,000 physically unfit and overage men in the next six months.) The Army's par for becoming a Mister will probably be lowered. In any case it will not be increased...
These-the lucky ones marked for "joyous reunions"-will be: 1) the physically unfit, 2) a handful of 40,000 fathers who have never been overseas but have been in "a long time," and 3) some 1,300,000 troops now overseas who have had "extended and arduous service...