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Word: fair (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Italo-Grecian crisis a year ago, he fought for peace, for mediation, for a fair settlement with an honesty and a Tightness which could not be denied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Prizes | 12/15/1924 | See Source »

With more than 80 books already missing from the reserved shelves in the Library, this year bids fair to equal last year's record of 350 stolen books. In the courses in Economics, Social Ethics, and Philosophy alone, 25 books have been missing since October 1. "But the worst part of it all", complained Librarian C. A. Mahady, when interviewed across the desk of the main reading room, yesterday "is that often a single volume of a series is stolen, and then the library usually has to buy an entire new set in order to replace just one volume. Recently...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NUMBER OF MISSING BOOKS NEARS RECORD | 12/10/1924 | See Source »

...with as many statistical tables as are good for the digestion, which is contained in The Congressional Record of May 23, Vol. 65, No. 138. There you will find the whole position stated with the utmost clearness. I do not need to go to any British source for a fair statement of the position-I am well content to leave the matter in the capable hands of Senator Hale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMONWEALTH: Calm | 12/8/1924 | See Source »

None thought it strange that the pious young Jewess watched the handsome cantor in a state of maidenly exaltation. None wondered when she lingered after service and spoke him fair for his singing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NETHERLANDS: Juliana | 12/8/1924 | See Source »

That a public library frequented by all classes, should suffer from marauding and mutilation is only to be expected. But that a college library, limited to a supposedly fair-minded group of students, and governed under the fairest rules and with the utmost freedom, should be victimized by utterly selfish abusers of privilege, lascivious commentators and petty thieves is an insult to the spirit of the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WORSE THAN HORSE THIEVES | 12/8/1924 | See Source »

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