Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which might conceivably be novel aircraft from a foreign country or spaceships from Mars), the Air Force scientists tried to derive from them some "flying-saucer model." They failed. All the unknowns that had been described in fair detail proved to be different...
...Branford College had paid about $100 for the fragment. Now, if it were for sale, a fair asking price would be $15,000. Professor Schrade rescued his treasure from the dust, had it cleaned, photographed and installed in an air-conditioned basement vault. Probably no one will ever know what it sounds like; scholars have not succeeded in transcribing the old neumes into modern notation...
...think it's splendid that someone is trying it out," Gordon M. Fair, Master of Dunster House, said, referring to the new program. He pointed out, however, that approval of the tutorial plan would take some time, since "the University moves quite slowly in these matters." He noted that Dunster House already has a weekly science table where House residents meet with men from the science departments...
...College, of course, has numerous clubs and organizations, but many of them take so much talent and time that many students fail to join them. A fair-to-good violinist, for example, who does not meet standards of the Bach Society or Pierian Sodality, now finds few places to fiddle in an organized chamber music group. In short, there are many areas besides the successful intramural athletic program where Houses can make valuable contributions to undergraduate activities...
...there is nothing to bewail in Paris Review 10. A literary periodical which can consistently publish fiction no worse than fair deserves a good deal of praise...