Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...knitting and they have not been successful. I am not blaming them nor are the reasons for their failure relevant. The fact that they have failed in the important and vital thing. It is high time to bring to bear the influence of the spirit of sportsmanship--fair play for all and a sporting chance for the underdog--as a World-Welder. I need not labour the point to caders of the Harvard CRIMSON that sportsmen--having no ulterior motive can meet and establish mutual understanding and respect when politicians and diplomats are bound to fail...
...legend of the Lost Tribes has persisted for a great many years. From time to time strange tales come out of the African and South American jungles of wandering explorers, delirious from hunger and thirst, who have stumbled upon communities of fair haired, light skinned Indians, with aquiline Moses and peculiarly clear cut features. Allan Quartermain found them, and so have several others whose reports have never been substantiated. There is always a suspicion of fever, hallucination, or temporary derangement on the part of the eye witness that makes complete belief impossible...
...object for which all this hardship and disease is being undergone seems trivial in the extreme. It will make the race of men no happier to know that somewhere in the tangle of tollage that is the Darien peninsula there really is a band of fair haired, thin lipped natives. Science will be little the wiser, and the sum total of human knowledge will not be appreciably increased. The real explanation for this and for all such expeditions is only partly scientific curiosity; it is much more the insatiable longing of a certain type of intellect to penetrate farther into...
...positive print made, and it was "put on the wire." In 44 minutes from the time the flash was snapped, a fully developed negative of it was available in New York. There were also several pictures of street scenes, buildings and bridges in Cleveland, which were reproduced with fair distinctness. The New York newspapers, contrary to their usual custom, did not retouch the prints, so that the cuts were somewhat inferior to ordinary newspaper halftones...
...Anthony's choice of "the best news stories of 1923" on the whole is fair. It does not include any prominent example of the "substantial, informative article" relating to business or political news?unless perhaps an article on the oil scandal can be so classed. In the main, it adheres to the more dramatic type of narrative. It is apparently an attempt to treat news articles by the standards of fiction. In a sense there is ample justification for this attitude. It is the newspaper man's business to vivify and dramatize news, within the scope of Truth. Several notable...