Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gothenburg Exposition, greatest world fair ever held in Scandinavia, was opened by King Gustavus V before a vast assembly of Swedish people interspersed with foreigners. It commemorates the tercentenary of the founding of Gothenburg by King Gustavus Adolphus...
...legitimate sort; a gentleman from Missouri, for example, urged the improvement of our inland waterways, while a motor manufacturer stressed the importance of the motor truck, and a railroad president stated the grievances and trials of the railways. Nevertheless, a deep impression was made when a policy of fair play for the railroads was successively urged by a farmer (0. E. Bradfute, President of the American Farm Bureau Federation), a labor union representative (W. N. Doak, senior Vice President of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen), and a banker (W. W. Head, First Vice President of the American Bankers' Association...
...heights of Great Neck came the Women's Club thereof, aesthetically accoutered to do their devoir. The Circle Players, the Temple Players, the East-West Players, the Players' League, the Stockbridge Stocks?these five arose from Manhattan, and girded their loins with batik and fine linen and came. Brooklyn, fair Brooklyn of the poets, sent forth the Adelphi Dramatic Association, the Brooklyn Institute Players, the Clark Street Players?mighty clans...
...less satisfactory. The larger question of numbers and method of allotment remains to be considered. The details of the new plan are stated elsewhere; it is sufficient to say that the general order of priority--College undergraduates, College graduates, graduate school students, graduate school graduates--is no doubt eminently fair. But no material change has been made, (except in the case of the Graduate Schools) in the number of seats which may be applied for. It is true that there will be a greater incentive to apply for only one, since it will be a fairly good seat instead...
...Henley the Seniors had about a third of a length on 1925 A, and with a world of power behind each stroke seemed in a fair way to take the remaining distance by storm. With the right to race Yale at stake, the Sophomores rallied sharply and with half a mile to go raised the count to the neighborhood of 34 and buckled grimly to the task of making up the deficit. And they nearly succeeded in doing it, for the prow of the Senior shell cut the line barely 8 feet in front--a rather tight finish...