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Word: faired (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Budapest String Quartet; Columbia, 6 sides). This quartet, the "Lark," does not fly with quite the grace and charm of Haydn's earlier and better quartet, "The Bird" (Op. 33, No. 3). The Budapesters don't soar with their earlier ease either. Recording: fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Night at the Opera | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...what he thinks they want." The council's counsel : give them what the editor thinks they ought to have. "The responsible editor . . . need not indulge in special pleading for the Negro. He need merely apply the same news values . . . the same respect for accuracy, the same sense of fair play and good taste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Double Standard | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...locating his store on a busy highway near the Indiana line and selling at cut rates, Meyer Jacob had become one of Chicago's biggest liquor dealers. But when the state legislature passed the Mandatory Fair Trade Act in July 1947, the state liquor commission tried to suspend his license for selling Penn Springs whisky 95? cheaper than the fair trade (i.e., minimum retail) price. Jacob kept his license while he fought the case through the courts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Knockout | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

There will undoubtedly be much sniveling in the eminently fair Boston press today to the effect that the game should have been called in about the third inning. In this I cannot concur. Once the three umpires had decided that the weather was not bad enough to call the second game, they had no reason to call it after it got under way, and the Braves found themselves eight runs behind...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 9/30/1949 | See Source »

...wouldn't be fair to the boys in the next class," Lunden said. "We can't give a student a choice of section. It's up to him to get to the counter early in the morning, when seats in his own section are off sale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Morning Line Snags Cornell Ticket Selling | 9/29/1949 | See Source »

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