Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before he drove off to see the U.S. World Trade Fair at Manhattan's Coliseum near by, Ike bade goodbye to Mrs. V. Beaumont Allen, Manhattan philanthropist, who donated $3,000,000 for Lincoln Center's Repertory Theater, and who, like the President, had suffered a coronary attack. Nobody heard exactly what Ike told her, but apparently it had something to do with the kind of medical care he got during his illness. A moment later she dashed over to the President's physician, Major General Howard Snyder, 78, and bussed him heartily. Shouted Ike gaily: "Tell...
...every fair minded undergraduate, recognizing the work and needs of the Annex, would sympathize with any movement tending to improve its facilities. The work that it has been accomplishing, the increasing number of students and the annual enlargement of its curriculum indicate that the Annex has fast been pushing to the front among our colleges for women. If, by joining the Annex to the University we can advance the cause of broader and more liberal education for women and can place that part of the college in the fore most rank of women's colleges, it is our part...
Their disillusionment with Harvard and with intellectuals in general, one suspects, dates back to the 1930's when the University provided a fair proportion of "brain-trusters" for FDR's New Deal. Yet, the sincerity of Veritas members cannot be questioned. Only strong conviction and deep concern explain the printing of Roosevelt's letter to Pusey, or his writing it in the first place; only a firm sense of patriotism can account for the large amounts of time and money spent on mailings and preparation of the 49-page documentation on Bunche's past activities...
...graduate student one and a half years of laborsome research to revise four cases of Iroquois and Algonquin tools. For every item selected, a thousand were discarded. This is something which more money could not quickly accomplish for the Museum. Yet here too money could help. It seems only fair that those volunteers who devote so much extra time to the Museum be remunerated. Also, an honorarium for such services would encourage others who are qualified but far less free with their time to work for the Peabody...
Based on a study of workers in a New England factory, Roethlisberger's book states that workers who are "in" with the shop group are "on-the-line" producers--turning out what the group considers "a fair day's work for a fair...