Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME, March 9, p. 14, discussing Governor Henry Johnson and his confidential secretary, Mrs. O. O. Hammonds, erred. Knowing your attempt to be fair always . . . I offer you some additional information...
Frank Hamilton Hankins, professor of sociology at Smith College (girls), lectured at Columbia University, Manhattan, last week. Said he: "I have made an exhaustive study of the Negro question. The Negro in this country bids fair to disappear absolutely within a couple of hundred years...
...tentative offer to repay 55,000,000 francs ($10,615,000) per annum on the Tsarist debt to France. If this long frozen source of revenue has actually begun to thaw, Frenchmen may well rejoice; but it was rumored that the Soviet Government comes once again with a fair-seeming offer, but intends to hold out once again for further credits from French manufacturers which France is loath to grant...
...been expressed by graduates and officers as well as by undergraduates. As a reason, it is stated that at the time of the war these memorial-church opposers were but ten or twelve years old, and therefore cannot judge the desirability of the memorial. Were it not a fair answer to show that after all the alumni, who were mature at the time of the war, and who would now contribute toward the memorial, are not intending to commemorate the heroism of the dead so much for those who personally knew them, as for the many generations through which...
Beyond these a different motif enters into the stories which follow. Formerly the dream element gave us a vision of fair women or of a knock-'em-down contest between lions and dragons. Forsooth, we do those things better in our day, when on the stage you will find cubistic representations of the sub-conscious mind in action. Pop the lights on and off, revolve them in circles of green, yellow and red. Shoot off a pistol now and then; no doubt about it, you have caught the modern dream element. R. H. Sanger has the spirit of the trick...