Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blow from the hammer of Thor. I refer to your treatment of the recent sad incident in the life of Frank Norris in TIME, July 26 [RELIGION, p. 18], which I regard as an unwarranted irruption of blackguardism. I hold no brief for the Southern preacher ; if a fair trial establishes the fact that he is guilty he should pay the penalty for his crime. Neither do I defend Fundamentalism and Fundamentalists as such ; but I do believe in the integrity of the Bible as the sure word of God including the Genesis story of Creation, and in historical Christianity...
...take her along. He fell in love with her. And then of course, when it was a question between her honor and his exalted mission in the sheiks' camp, he scrapped the mission. . . . That is not quite the way the story ends, nor would it be fair to say more. Slapstick though it is, the conclusion of this book is one of the most surprising, ingenious and broadly humorous twists ever put to a tale by any one short of Mark Twain...
...again in 1902, 1903 and 1904-four times in six years, and three times consecutively, drawing far ahead of DePauw, the main contender up to that period. Beloit won again in 1908, and has had two victories since then, if memory serves me correctly. Wabash has a fair claim to such a "crown" for the present college generation, or decade, but its record still falls short of that set by Beloit 20 years ago, as also for the whole stretch of years...
...displayed his talent in private life and rescued a beleaguered heroine. This particular walker walked a telegraph wire into a burning building to complete the rescue. Previously he had refused to perform a certain difficult stunt in the circus and was branded a coward. The circus scenes are fair, the climax exciting, and the whole picture dangerously close to average...
...favorable. Said Mr. Baldwin: "I am quite sure that if you try to bring up youth on entirely unbiased history he will never read it. I prefer my own method of getting a vivid picture first and correcting it afterwards; because, generally speaking, you do not want to be fair until you are grown up. ... I think that to try to make young people see every side and sit on the fence would be to train up a generation of mug-wumps who would be singularly ineffective in practical life...