Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...library claims that since it will recall an officer's books on demand, the system is fair enough. But they admittedly don't advertise this service because of its expense; hence few people use it. Besides, it often takes a long time to recover the book, as the officer may temporarily refuse to return...
...responsible, I cannot permit this to grow." Thimayya thought the explainers should get through a compound of 500 P.W.s a day or "forget about those who are not explained to." If the explanations stalled altogether, Thimayya implied, he would use his own troops to give the P.W.s a fair hearing...
...outgrowth of days of bull sessions on "McCarthyism." the demonstration evoked mixed reactions even on the campus. When the student newspaper Varsity took a favorable stand. News Editor Paul Bacon resigned, commenting: "I dislike Communism to the extent that I feel any measures directed against its destruction are fair." Varsity insisted: "The burning succeeded in its purpose ... It brought to the surface one of the most threatening movements of the postwar world...
Looking ahead, 100 top industrialists from 30 states, polled at a meeting of the National Association of Manufacturers, were all but unanimous in predicting that there will be no serious downturn. Sixty expect business next year to be good, 39 think it will be fair, and only one is looking for a slump...
...Hanley: "He is far and away the best writer of the sea and of seafaring men since Conrad, and indeed in my opinion is much superior to him." Said the Times Literary Supplement: "[One of his] greatest achievements-and of their kind there are none superior." This is a fair sample of what the critics have been saying about Novelist Hanley for two decades. The Closed Harbor goes far in explaining why he wins book reviewers more readily than book buyers...