Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jentsch, German delegate, said that mercantile vessels should not be armed so that submarines could safely give fair warning to the unarmed, merchant ships before sinking them, in order that passengers might save themselves. This point was hotly contested by N. C. Shen 2g., delegate from China, who eloquently proclaimed that the rights of peutrals should supersede those of belligerents. Although W. D. Macpherson 1G., delegate from Australia, sarcastically pointed out that Jentsch wanted the submarines protected by disarming merchant vessels, the delegation voted in favor of Jentsch...
...half of them. It is unfair to pick a man for an All-American team when the picker has never seen him play. The report may come that So-and-so-starred in such-and-such a game, but that doesn't prove anything. There can be no fair standard of comparison. Even if you expert does see a man play once, he may get a wrong impression. The man may be playing far above or far below his normal game...
...wanted was a "paper cutter." He was immediately relieved and carried this ivory implement about with him all day. He has been in town only a week and he has met "everyone," from Irvin Cobb to Gloria Swanson. He is so friendly and so human that it scarcely seems fair to catalog him as an English novelist...
...public meeting in the office of the Mayor of Philadelphia, sentiment was overwhelmingly opposed to making the proposed Sesqui -Centennial Exposition (in Philadelphia, 1926) an exhibition of international proportions. The vote was 403 to 43. Opposition to the international project was led by E. T. Stotesbury and myself. The fair will therefore be held exclusively under the auspices of Philadelphia...
That neither of these faults can be attributed to those who sponsor the tutorial system at Harvard has been amply proved by their attitude of intelligent progress and experimentation in the past. And if this their latest experiment of comparison is given a fair trial and due consideration, they may achieve their desire. A proper fusion of the Oxonion tutorial system with the still youthful Harvard tutorial system, may in the not-too-distant future produce a wholly desirable system--to be called, perhaps, the Superlatively Successful; to be welcomed, perhaps, by all departments that aim at education...