Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brown, the star south fair, will have his second taste of Maine batting today. His wildness in the Bates game almost threw away the verdict, but the manner in which he finished up the Cornell game augurs well for this afternoon. Toulmin may be Coach Shattery's last minute choice for mound duty and in any case he will be the first relief pitcher...
...last act is worth a column in itself. This is what the artful dramatist has been building for all the time. Space forbids a discussion here; besides it is not quite fair to reveal it. It contains the best and the worst of the play. Besides one or two seemingly curious contradictions of character, there is a showy device of dramatic technique in the inquisition scene which seems in poor taste,-- a dissent from good dramaturgy to bad artifice, so it seems to me. You may not agree...
...nothing more than a pleasing poetical fabrication, designed primarily to amuse the yokels of Sparta and Macedonia, and--although unwittingly--to provide material for the exercise of ingenuity on the part of countless subsequent generations of Greek classes. The whole train--crafty Ulysses, noble Priam, brave Hector, fair-haired Menelaus, together with the attendant array of angry gods and jealous goddesses, and all the clangor of archaic war, the rumbling of chariots, the crash of spear on shield, and the dominating twang of Apollo's silver bow--was thought to be nothing more than the day dream of an idle...
...years. The observations which he has made, and the information which he has gleaned, obviously from Soviet quarters, form the material for the book. Dr. Nansen has pictured, admittedly superficially, present-day Russia, her trade, financial, agricultural, industrial and educational situation. In each case he has striven to be fair to everyone. He has shown considerable sympathy with the Bolsheviki in their troubles, but he has not been blind to the viewpoints of outside persons.. Briefly he tells of the utter disintegration of finance, industry, commerce,, education, agriculture. He brings out, among other things, the fact that Russia...
...precedent having been set, other corporations followed suit. Mr. Vanderlip has successfully resigned from the boards of the Union Pacific Railroad, the U. S. Rubber Co., Freeport Texas Co., and recently from the International Mercantile Marine Co. The Wall Street Journal suggested that Mr. Vanderlip is in a fair way to become "a man without a company...