Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...December, 1921, the mail order house of Sears, Roebuck & Co., that proud, old firm "founded on a fair profit, a fine organization and the faith of the customer," was in a bad, bad way. The post-War depression and readjustment had nibbled away at inventories and surplus so that earlier that year dividends on common stock had to be suspended. It seemed to President Julius Rosenwald and his associates that, to balance on the year, they would have to write off inventories hugely, pass dividends and even levy on holders of common stock some fraction of their stocks. Now these...
Quietly through his pince-nez Mr. Rosenwald looked at his associates. They saw a gentle, dignified man, oval of face, high of brow, thoughtful of eye, pleasant of lips-lips which by a phrase had often given millions in thoughtful charity. They were to hear those lips make as fair a proposition as ever was laid before business...
...journeyers came to pay their respects to the dignified lady of 64, Theodore Roosevelt's second wife, mother of five of his six children, the same lady who in the first decade of the century, slender featured, fair skinned, a lover of out of doors and a delicate pianist, presided gracefully over the White House...
...title, a collection of the stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, "Caravan" by John Galsworthy, and Jane Austen's "Sanditon," hitherto unpublished. Despite the CRIMSON'S obituary of Sherwood Anderson, his "Dark Laughter" seems to me a great improvement over some of his other books. Michael Arien's "May Fair" is on the order of his other books, but after the first flash he becomes a little tiresome. Maurice Baring has produced another entertaining and delightfully written novel, "Cat's Cradle." "Suspense" is an unfinished novel by Joseph Conrad. David Garnett's "Sailor's Return," an amusing and well written story...
Most undergraduates will probably find "The Old Dog's" current article a fair reflection of their own point of view. This attitude, as he correctly says, is marked by "an ardent appreciation of the human element in teaching and a bitter hostility toward the pedantic." College students are tired of having knowledge interpreted to them wholly in terms of the classroom as something having little or no relation to life. The pedantic professor who treats facts as dry bones is tolerated by his classes with the same coldness as he himself radiates. Such a professor seems to have forgotten that...