Word: unfitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Austria as part of a barter deal between Russian occupation forces and the Italians. Viennese really owed their thanks to a Soviet inspection officer who, it appeared, had never before seen a banana. The inspector had chomped a big bite of one-skin & all. Tasted horrible. His ruling: ". . . Unfit for Russian military personnel-dispose of them on the Austrian economy...
...knows much about the old three-story building behind Kirkland House. According to the University, it is "unfit for human habitation." But six students in the School of Design call it home and spend their spare time rebuilding...
...Toombs County, Ga., a herd of hogs was fattened up on three carloads of fruitcake-Army surplus, declared unfit for human consumption...
...order" before the revolution, what was the case after Lenin completed his handiwork? He destroyed Russia's institutions and tried to impose a form of society of which 99 Russians out of 100 had never heard, which had not been tried anywhere, and for which Russia was called unfit by the very men who had invented this idea of society. If Czarism needed an Okhrana, clearly the Bolshevist state would need a super-Okhrana to fill the larger social vacuum...
State fire inspectors ruled another University building unfit for public gatherings yesterday as the Germanic Museum's large hall, scheduled scene for the April production of "Murder in the Cathedral," was found to be unsafe for any large audience. A lack of proper emergency exists and insufficient lighting circuits were the main factors in the State board's decision, which followed a similar pre-Christmas ruling on Sanders Theatre...