Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...salaries; and with every resignation of a government official to enter a private corporation, the distinction of the office, as such, is lessened. The position of Senator or Secretary of State is consequently less desired for its own sake, now, than it was fifty years ago. It is hardly fair to appeal to a man's public spirit or altruism, when not only the financial return, but the honor as well, are relatively so small. Yet that at present is the only appeal possible...
Some lovers of fair play...
...time is necessary; if those who wish to become editors were not given this long period in which to show their abilities--and their defects--there would undoubtedly be errors of judgment resulting in two things. The unsuccessful candidate would feel that he had not been given a fair trial, and this might be the case. Conversely, a candidate who had been chosen might prove a liability instead of an asset to the paper, so that the editors would be justified in feeling that they were at a disadvantage because of the necessity of making a too hasty decision...
...conference is over, but from all indications much of the progressive work-instituted by the administration will have to be repeated in the Senate. The fight for ratification of the several treaties, agreed upon by the conference, bids fair to be as bitter as that which took place over the League two years...
...when a month is a thirteenth of a year and twenty-eight days is not divisible by three! And think of the awful rate of the small boy whose birthday falls always on Sunday! No! No! If we decide to steal a march on Dame Nature let us be fair and above board; let the reformers figure out how many days they want in a week, a month, and a year, and then let our scientists devise a method (as Jules Verne tells us was done by the "Gun Club") for blowing this old sphere off its course so that...