Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...over the valuation of U. S. railroads. It had been stewing a long time-since 1914 when the Esch-Cummins Act went into effect. By this Act Congress ordered the I. C. C. to reckon up the values of each of the U. S. railroads according to some fair formula and to use such valuations as the basis upon which to figure transportation rates. The Act also provided that after a railroad earned 6% profits as calculated upon the I. C. C. valuation, it must split its extra profits half and half with the U. S. Government. That...
Excursion trains chugged merrily last week, to fair Assisi, where once St. Francis preached the joy of a holy life in poverty. There were some on the excursion trains last week who cared not a bean for the first Franciscan. But all were ardent Fascists who pilgrimaged to see the poet-hero of Fascismo, famed Gabriele D'Annunzio...
...student car rule is judicious, fair, and the only alternative time will show it to be such. If it is not, the presumption of trust in the administrators is in favor of the proposition that they will admit they are wrong if they are wrong...
...this referendum. Only the Saturday Evening Post and Liberty surpassed us in the esteem of the thinkers in our oldest American university. Advertising agencies and national advertisers will please take notice that in esteem, if not in circulation, we outrank the Ladies' Home Journal, the Pictorial Review, Vanity Fair, Judge, Life, and the Police Gazette. Who shall say hereafter that the highbrow student does not turn to highbrow publications? Henceforth we shall have no doubts as to the progress of the intellectual life among he Harvard undergraduates--not even when they call Princeton rough, decline to sing at glee-club...
...other non-athletic organization to increase the fame of Harvard as regards extra-curricular activities. Pursuing a definite artistic goal and making no attempt to cater to any other public than that of the highest artistic taste, the Glee Club has won for itself a reputation which bids fair to become international. Its participation in the Beethoven festival, its tours, its Symphony Hall concerts, have made it recognized as one of the few non-professional choruses with a distinct musical value...