Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enthralled local Chamber of Commerce, Congressman Sol Bloom, member of the House Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions, recommended that Brooklyn hold a world's fair and permanent international exposition in 1932 in honor of the 200th anniversary of the birth of George Washington. He proposed the use of 2,200 acres of undeveloped park land on Jamaica Bay, the erection of buildings with 5,000,000 square feet of floor space for exhibits by the U. S. and 46 foreign governments, a stadium to hold 200,000 people, parking space for 100,000 automobiles, the highest tower...
...Fair Players With Brains Best...
...other hand, a man who, in spite of lack of physical superiority, makes himself a fair player through study, practice, and good brain work, may often prove an excellent coach. 'Bill' Reid is a good example of this. With no extraordinary physical endowment, he had the mental ability to make himself a good player, and later he had a genius for analysis and instruction in such a way that the average man understood not only the what, but, vastly more important, the how and why of his position. Reid was a human dynamo, and spared neither his men nor himself...
Coach Wachter's squad is far too large at present, but he wishes to give all of the men a fair opportunity, so he will retain them all for two weeks more...
...citizens out of their money; restores devotion to the hearts of parted lovers. The play is completely given over to him, much as Lightnin' was given over to Bill Jones. The plays are not dissimilar. The Deacon is probably not so important as its prototype, but a very fair echo no less. Young Blood. You would think, would you not? that plays about the younger generation were about over with. But they are not. Here are such a shrewd and forward-looking a dramatist as James Forbes and such excellent performers as Helen Hayes, Norman Trevor, Eric Dressier...