Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Outdoor practice tomorrow," was the optimistic slogan at the baseball cage yesterday afternoon, and after the usual batting session in the cage Coach Slattery sent his charges outside for a few minutes to pass the ball back and forth and limber up generally. If fair weather continues, the entire workout will be outdoors this afternoon...
Playwright Zangwill tries almost forcibly to be fair. He admits the young must indulge their craving for self-expression, while the old should give more pats on the head and fewer raps on the knuckle. But it is obvious that he really bows before Kipling's God of Things as They Are. It is Zangwill determined to grow old gracefully. He is intent on raising the dust by thumping sofa cushions which have already had the stuffing knocked out of them by numerous writers. His stodgy play is only occasionally relieved with flashes of wit, and sudden fits...
...hour by train from Buffalo, a promontory, fair in Summer, cuts the waters of Lake Chautauqua. It is a piece of land almost totally covered with cottages and tents...
...applause at the end of President Eliot's speech had died away, R. P. Bullard '24, chorister of the Senior class, stepped to the platform, led the crowd first in a long and thunderous Harvard cheer with three "Eliots" on the end, and finally in the first stanza of "Fair Harvard", in which President Eliot, standing straight and tall in the center of the platform, joined his voice with those of the 2000 men before...
...There have been other portraits of President Eliot including Mr. Sargent's full length portrait," he continued, "but none of them, it is fair to say, have caught the spirit of Mr. Eliot so successfully as Mr. Hopkinson's. The general effect of the picture is columnar. The President sits erect looking straight out of the picture with the characteristic frank, forcible and penetrating look in his eyes. The picture was painted three years ago, and so it represents President Eliot as an older man than the average graduate remembers him, but as we all know time has shot...