Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...keep the names of one team secret while the other's roster was revealed was scarcely justice, and it is probable that the reason for the announcement was to maintain a fair balance with Yale. This balance existed before, since the members of each team had been selected and notified, but publication perfects...
...examination, there was not the same reason for selecting them long in advance, and it was the judgement of a good many representative students consulted that it would be better not to make advance announcement of their names unless shortly before the examination. But clearly it would not be fair to the Yale men to select the ten best papers out of much over a hundred at Harvard, and line them up against those of ten men who had been previously chosen at Yale. Conditions had to be made as uniform as the circumstances allowed...
...surged merry, excited Milanese. They filled the whole square except for a lane guarded by picked, stalwart troops of the Alpine mountaineering service. In a moment His Majesty, beloved King Vittorio Emanuele III, would ride down the human lane and on to open Milan's great, annual Sample Fair. Why didn't the King come? He was already overdue. The child on the lamp post tossed her head impatiently and made a face at some other children who were lamp posting nearby...
Resolutely His Majesty rode on and performed his royal duty: the opening of the Sample Fair. That done-and done quickly-he motored in haste to the hospital where victims of the explosion were receiving treatment. There, as a kindly King and Father, he spoke quietly and as consolingly as might be the suffering...
Conde Nast, publisher of Vanity Fair, Vogue, etc., purchased the controlling interest in the Grand Central Palace and a neighboring office building in Manhattan. The deal involved $15,000,000. He said he would use the upper floors of the Grand Central Palace for permanent industrial exhibits and continue the policy of leasing the three lower floors for annual automobile, boat, flower shows...