Word: unfitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...refer, of course, to the problem of the Lubell brothers, who by their defiant refusal to answer questions asked them by a properly constituted legislative investigating committee, and their invocation of the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution as the basis for that refusal, have proven themselves unfit for admission to the bar of any of our states, and, of course, unfit to continue as student at the Harvard Law School...
...Wellesley, Eleanor Roosevelt told delegates from 25 colleges: "All we have done so far is to frighten the wits out of the American people ... I contend that faculties and presidents know their people better than anyone else and are better able to judge whether men and women are unfit to teach...
...positive side, in his crusade for "honest religion," he has advocated euthanasia, rigorous, scientific birth control, and sterilization of the unfit as a means of keeping the population manageable...
...prerogatives still left to the British Crown is the right to claim all sturgeon caught in British waters. It is a privilege few monarchs avail themselves of, for English sturgeon, unlike its zestier Russian cousin, is a flat and flavorless fish unfit for a Queen. For this reason, royalty's rights became a matter of mere second thought last week when Fisherman Fred Warman sailed into Grimsby with a 40-lb. sturgeon in his hold. Warman let the sturgeon go at auction along with the rest of his catch, to Fishmonger Oscar Cleve for 3s, 4¾d. (about...
...Napoleon. The conqueror of Europe, Herbert assures his readers, wanted nothing but to make Elba "an island Athens," and "die peaceful and happy" there. "The charge is not that one man, through wild ambition, would not accept defeat. It is that the many, having no magnanimity, were unfit for victory." The book ends with Napoleon on his way to Waterloo, a battle Herbert clearly considers one of the most unnecessary ever fought...