Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fair statement to say, Dr. Oppenheimer, that, according to your testimony now, you told not one lie to Colonel Pash but a whole fabrication and tissue of lies...
...Early nomination for Man of the Year: Joseph N. Welch-lawyer, gentleman, Republican, champion of decency and fair play, admired by 26 million Democrats and the Lord only knows how many million Republicans...
...Peter Andres Strobel, 53, who had pointed his theodolite in the direction of the U.S. from the time he entered Copenhagen's Technical University. At 24, with a diploma and a Danish wife and daughter, Strobel immigrated to New York. At the 1939 New York World's Fair, Strobel, the fair's chief structural engineer, tested the amusement section's thrill-ride contraptions by taking the first spin on each. During World War II, he designed prefabricated Army barracks and portable airplane hangars. His Manhattan firm of Strobel & Salzman has a variety of edifices...
...first Jew to be denounced in the House of Commons for 500 years." But to Hecht none of this counts for much compared with the misfortune of living in the contemporary world. For Ben Hecht clearly blames Ben Hecht on his time-which may be less than fair to the 20th century...
...Pyinmana, not 450 miles from Dienbienphu, the Burmese government last week started its long-promised land reform. About 21,000 acres were parceled out among some 4,500 land-hungry peasants. Unlike Communist-style land reform, the landlords got fair compensation. In the next nine years Premier U Nu hopes to distribute 10 million acres, give perhaps 2,000,000 Burmese a stake of their own against Communism...