Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...generous and sentimental, but is worked out with restraint of form. Concision, too, marks the interesting lines entitled "Abnegation"; and, still more, those on "Bereavement," which strike the present reader's ear as the best thing in the number. They are only eight lines, and it would be hardly fair to quote them. Among the business-like book reviews may be single out, perhaps, that on the "Papers" of Colonel House. It is very well balanced
...exceptions. The "cut rates" on long hauls are the result of competition with water routes-ocean, lake or Panama Canal. A railroad gets business in the first instance for service which water routes cannot render (service of speed, service to interior localities), for which it charges presumably a fair rate. But the more business a railroad gets, the less its operating cost per ton per mile, the greater its profits. So, to swell the volume of its business, a railroad will take business at "cut rates" which otherwise it would not get because of water competition...
...Chesapeake Bay district, throughout the South except the Delta country, in northern Texas, along the Mexican Border (except the Texas line), coastal California from San Francisco south, in the Columbia valley and Puget Sound areas, and on the easterly side of the northern Rocky Mountains. Elsewhere business was fair; nowhere quiet...
...attempt which is going to be made at the Reportory is essentially similar. The satire here, however, is to be directed chiefly against Boston life and Boston customs. Harvard and the Boston theatre will came in for a fair share...
...proves as fair as yesterday afternoon, I am sure I shall not have enough attension left by 2 o'clock or Attention which is the subject of Professor MacDougall's lecture in Emerson...