Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Decided that restricted immigration was just and fair but adopted the resolution of Missionary E. Stanley Jones urging "all Christian citizens to unite in removing as soon as possible such legislation that restricts immigration and the rights of citizenship on grounds of race and color...
Appears at breakfast table promptly at 8, sips orange juice and coffee, eats a fair amount of oatmeal, nibbles bits of toast, rolls, eggs, bacon; gives new dimes or nickels to servants and guests. He has distributed some 22,000 of these gleaming coins in the last two decades. To those he sees every day, he usually gives nickels; to others, dimes...
...Yard has not long been green, and the first truly warm nights of spring have come, then the Glee Club sings to the sons of Harvard scattered over the grass beneath the elms until they too mount the broad steps and join in the full throated chorus of "Fair Harvard...
Sometimes threats and blusterings succeed when fair words fail. For some weeks U. S. Cinema Censor Will H. Hays has been in Paris speaking none but fair words (TIME, April 2). His ticklish task has been to persuade the Cinematic Control Commission of the French Ministry of Public Instruction that it ought to modify a recent drastic decree. This was, in effect, that U. S. cinema dramas would be licensed for exhibition in France solely upon condition that for every four films so licensed U. S. exhibitors would purchase one French film and display it throughout...
...this capacity, his first move was to import the Hans Von Bulow Orchestra from Hamburg to the Chicago World's Fair. Next he captured Sandow, the strong...