Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Monday, a night not so popular as Saturday with hockey enthusiasts. The more important reason, however, is that Princeton applied for only 50 seats, whereas Yale required well over a thousand. The result is that Harvard men may apply for an unlimited number of tickets with a fair chance of getting them. Preference will be given to the small applications; that is, the one-ticket applicants will get the best seats, the two-ticket ones next, and so forth. Demands mailed after tomorrow night will, however, be filled in the order of receipt...
...Premier intends to use the League of Nations as his main instrument to establish and maintain world peace and thereby to set an example to other nations. He will also vigorously ostracize secret diplomacy. In general his policy will be to promote the welfare of the workers "by fair and constitutional means...
...National Bank. The Supreme Court so ruled. Justice Sutherland wrote the decision: "The mere multiplication of places where the powers of a bank may be exercised is not, in our opinion, a necessary incident of a banking business. ... It is wholly illogical to say that a power which by fair construction of the statutes is found to be denied nevertheless exists as an incidental power...
...service received accidental emphasis when the message was being telephoned to the Western Union. The operator transcribed the above sentence: "The institution has 'saved' Harvard men since 1336." The executors of the estate have promised to make every effort to insure the continuation of Mr. Nolen's policy of fair play by the purchasers of the school...
Heretofore, the correspondence method of instruction has been applied almost exclusively to business and technical subjects, and apparently has had more than a fair amount of success. It is evident however that studying such subjects leads to increased earning power; there is the stimulus of money, which urges young men to go through with the courses outlined by the "mail-order" schools...