Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Booth, Yale's dynamic miracle man who, in his first year of college football, has had as much publicity as Red Grange ever had. Last year he captained his Freshman football, basketball, and baseball teams and he bids fair to be Yale's best athlete in more than a decade. According to pregame predictions the balance of the game rests in his hands; if he gets loose, Yale will win; if Harvard holds him, the Crimson banners will wave above the Blue...
...concluding numbers will be "Fair Harvard" and "Bright College Years", sung jointly by the two glee clubs...
...very difficult at present to make anything like a fair appraisal of Sargent's position in art. The vogue that was his a decade or two ago has been succeeded by a tendency to belittle him. Only critics in the future, unaffected either by contemporary popularity or by natural hostility to the dicta of the preceeding generation can be just in their estimate. In any event, Sargent must be granted a place of some importance in American art, and the Museum acknowledged fortunate in possessing such examples of his work. The drab mural specimens in Widener require an antidote before...
...Harvard Mandolin Club will offer selections from "Pinafore", another Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, and the Brahms' Waltz in A Major. Then the Harvard singers will offer two Russian folk songs, "Fireflies", and "At Father's Door", and Harvard football songs, closing with "Bright College Years" and "Fair Harvard", sung with the Yale Glee Club...
...bank had issued. Now all banks, even the Federal Reserve System, issue more money in paper than they have gold in their vaults. Every bank would be broken if all its depositors simultaneously attempted to exchange paper for gold. And, unhappily, the Industrial Bank had held itself to no fair ratio between cash and paper. Auburn at 514?Johns Manville at 242? Radio at 114?here were bank-branches with a topheavy proportion of notes to cash. Even the biggest and most secure branches, such as General Electric, American Telephone &Telegraph, United States Steel, constituted inflated currency when their securities...