Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This method of classification, according to Mr. Shevlin, will be more just and fair to the lighter men: for an advantage of three or four pounds in the first three classes is proportionately as great as one of fifteen pounds in the heaviest class. Under the former arrangement a man weighing 124 pounds would have a great advantage over one weighing 113, although both would be in the same class. The newer system prevents any such disparity of weights...
...there had been no league,--no opportunity for the small nations to band together,--the recent Italian-Greek controversy would have led to another great European conflagration. We must be fair to the League, whether or no we want to join. It is young and must win its way, just as the United States...
While refraining from the sentimental approach to this subject, one might nevertheless point out that a great deacon, and probably will be said on that account. However, a perfectly impersonal, business-like view is all that is really necessary to convince a fair-minded and solvent individual of the justice of the claim. The means adopted for paying the general obligation may in some cases be inconvenient or disliked, but the obligation remains: the method has been devised to suit the greatest number...
Present in the leader's seat among the crowded opposition benches was ex-Premier Baldwin. After the speech both he and ex-Premier Asquith, Liberal leader, congratulated Mr. Macdonald. In general the attitude of the house was fair. "Give Labor a chance...
...Allow me to congratulate you on the spirit of fair play you show in publishing Mr. Gale's communication...