Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Folks for some time now have been aware of a phenomenon in Western thought known as laissez-faire thinking. Its latest expression has come in Eisenhower's Geneva Conference proposal for "open skies." With the true homely-phrase-making genius of the American politician, the President presented the world with an appealing slogan. "Open skies" sounded like a Good Thing, because Americans are good at free competition so long as it is clean and "open." "Open skies" called to mind Woodrow Wilson, fair play, and possibly even Blue Skies. It was, in short, a note of hope. Perhaps it still...
...weather will be fair this morning, with blue skies until the noon hour. Partly cloudy in the afternoon...
James Burnett, who has been a janitor in freshman dormitories for 31 years and once served as an HUERA officer, also comments that "The University has always been fair to us, and they were always fair when I sat with them on wages and grievances...
Henry Petrillo, a veteran of 27 years service, adds that the University is sometimes "too fair," and gives employees "too many extra chances...
...That academic standards be stiffened. If each new year marks the entrance of 'Yale's brightest class ever,' then a corresponding rise in standards is fair...