Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ours is an old English line, with a mixture of Scotch. In late years, it is only fair to say, there has been less and less of the English and more and more of the scotch. Why, only last night--but this is the story of my ancestors. I was speaking of those noble Forecast sires who, from generation unto generation, has passed the Forecast name to noble Forecast sons, and with never an incompleted pass...
...note in TIME, October 11, p. 35, under SPORT, "Eleven maroon-sweatered rakehells" referring to the University of Chicago football team. I presume your sport writer thought he was being clever, but it is just such blotches as this on the face of your otherwise fair paper that make booster-readers writhe...
Lutherans. Dethroned by Presbyterians from their onetime third rank in number of U. S. Protestants, Lutherans plan to count hereafter communicants rather than confirmed members, as a fair and more impressive test of strength. Thus was cut a particularly tight Gordian knot, at the biennial convention of this faith, at Richmond...
...ever lived. Balzac did him the honor to model his own Physiology of Marriage upon the Physiology of Taste of Brillat-Savarin. An unabridged translation of the latter work, on the 100th anniversary of the death of Brillat-Savarin, with an introduction by fastidious Editor Frank Crowninshield of Vanity Fair, is by way of being a delicate effort to elevate U. S. civilization...
...University Band will have several of its most tuneful renditions recorded by the Victor Talking Machine Company for sale before the Princeton game, it was announced yesterday. "Fair Harvard," "Harvardiana," "Up the Street," and "Our Director" are the four melodies selected as being the most popular in the College...