Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Remus should have been electrocuted, but if his acquittal produces in Ohio and elsewhere a substantial impulse toward better criminal procedure, he will in spite of himself have done something to counterbalance the blow which he placed on the fair name of Cincinnati...
...Federation clings to the equalization-fee of the aged McNary-Haugen Bill. By this plan, each farmer would pay some of his profits into a pot, held by the Government, from which farmers with losses would draw compensation. How to compute such losses? By having the Government fix "a fair price" for all crops each year. Farmers forced (by the presence of a crop surplus) to sell below the U. S. price, would be considered losers...
...minority; it is astounding to find that it is tolerated. Misplaced as any zenl for combined study in the workshop of a university is, it assumes proportions larger than those of mere annoyance when it thwarts an educational experiment. The Reading Period, it has been said, depend for a fair trial upon the co-operation of Library and student. The Library's assistance has been wholehearted and complete, that of the student deserves no impairment at the hands of the thoughtless. No one would wish a permanent "verboten" to be hung on communication in the Reading Room, but it would...
...Vagabond all was well. He remembered, a trifle vaguely, perhaps, that he would not roam the halls of learning until the mid year examinations; besides, we have remarked, perhaps we should say confessed, the glass was empty. Then, too, it has been recorded that the Vagabond's companion was fair, was, it may be said, shall, in fact, be said, nothing short of well favored...
...things of the world that are free. Free speech--bad in a democratic country. Free press--even the tabloids cost, or retail at, two cents. Free lunch--scarcely to be classed among the best things of this mortal sphere. Free love--ah! was this a hint? Did the fair damsel suggest amorous dalliance. Impossible. There was no mistletoe. Besides amorous dalliance might be called "petting", a thing abhorrent to gentlemen of the old school who indulged only in spooning. But still, she had had a glass of champagne....Could it have gone to her head as had the more capious...