Word: unfitted
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...well explain why the electric rate at Bangor should be 9¢ per kilowatt hour. He favored moderate Federal regulation, opposed public operation. Democrat Marcel Garsaud was opposed by Alfred Danziger, an agent of Louisiana's loud little Governor and Senator-elect Huey Parham Long, who charged Mr. Garsaud was unfit for the job because of business obligations to New Orleans Public Service, an Electric Bond & Share subsidiary. Republican Claude Draper, for twelve years a Wyoming Public Utilities Commissioner, made the Senate Committee snicker when he justified a 10¢ per kilowatt hour rate at Casper on the ground that the public...
...Meredith of Tufts and Jackson Colleges said yesterday that college failures are traceable to a deficient personality quotient, rather than to a lack of intelligence. Certainly the entrance examinations have weeded out a major portion of the intellectually unfit; the psychologic maladjustments quite common to the Freshman year are more often responsible for failure than stupidity. This is especially true at Harvard, a large college in a large city. Indifference may be a blessing to the strong, but it may prove Coventry to the first year student bewildered by the austerity and unapproachableness of the environment. And as physical condition...
...Author. The late David Herbert Lawrence died at Vence near Nice last March of tuberculosis. Son of a coalminer in central England, he had a hard time all his life. In 1914 he tactlessly married Frieda von Richthofen, sister of the famed German flyer. Three times declared consumptive, unfit for military service, he was nevertheless suspected of pacifism or worse, did not enjoy the War. After the Armistice he left England, wandered the world, lived for a while near Taos, N. Mex. Other books: Sons and Lovers, Aaron's Rod, Fantasies of the Unconscious, Women in Love, Lady Chatterley...
...ugly impression of negligence, or at least undue haste, grew yet higher with the testimony of Vice-Marshal Dowding. Fearing the dirigible was unfit for the long voyage, he said, he ordered Wing Commander R. B. B. Colmore (another crash victim) to run a full power test as soon as possible after casting off from the mooring mast at Cardington. Apparently this order was ignored...
Final preparation for the Michigan game was somewhat hampered yesterday by the cold weather, which resulted in a frozen field unfit for practice; after a few minutes of kicking and passing in the Stadium, the team retired to the Briggs Cage, where the seconds put on Michigan plays and the first team put on their own formations...