Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...begun by the United States is not yet successfully completed. It shows that whatever action taken concerning Hayti or the Philippines, it must be cautious and taken with the full understanding that our Cuban barometer, after many years of watching, has not yet risen from the "storm" to the "fair weather" mark...
...usually stipulated that the agreements reached by mediation do not create precedents, but apply only to the particular cases in hand. The neutral arbitrator, if he has the ability and inclination, may in the course of his work by discussion and education establish standards of justice and fair dealing in the employer-employee relation acceptable to both sides. These may form a sort of underwritten constitution of great practical influence upon the harmonious operation of the enterprise. The possibility of disputes and conflicts is greatly reduced when the parties, acting in good faith, gradually approach agreements in their beliefs...
Polo at Yale has been given a good start and bids fair to rank with any of the minor sports of the University within a short time. Regular practice is being held in the Yale Artillery Armory. On every Monday and Thursday during the winder months three and a half hours will be devoted to polo instruction, a part of the time being given over to mallet and blackboard work and the rest to actual drill on ponies...
...blockade, America was forced of necessity to make its own dyes. None could be had from Germany, and but a small quantity from other sources, consequently a dye industry was formed, which has steadily grown in size and excellence, until it now turns out products that might bid fair to compete with any foreign market. This industry, however, is still in its infancy. Materials and wages are costly, and it has not yet established itself firmly with the manufacturers...
...shipwreck; treated with a vigorous hand, it hurls chunks of humor, as it were, at the reader, who, if he be in the right mood, finds his vision obscured at times by tears of laughter. Uncontrollable chuckling seizes him at Mr. Brown's ludicrously chivalrous attitude to his fair companion on the desert isle and their common adventures it is only a pity that the ending is rather weak...