Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Latin nations are attempting by fair means or foul to gain control of the League and administer it solely in their own interest...
...this purpose Harvard and Yale were successful at Cambridge on Saturday night. A much more sizable audience was lured to Paine Hall than the pitiful handful which has sat at the ringside of many an arduous intercollegiate debate in the past. And the attentive observer had many free and fair chances to laugh. Unfortunately, however, he had also much occasion to groan. For one thing the speakers for Yale established so complete a monopoly upon the humor of the evening that the Department of Justice might well bring suit against them for a combination in restraint of trade. Surely...
...knell of laissez-faire is being sounded in the Caucasus. Government interference has stepped in to establish among the Caucasian tribesmen a fair value for wives. The maximum price for brides as indicated by the interplay of scarcity and utility, or in short by the ratio of supply to demand, is now fixed at $25 (half-price for a widow). In the future, the paternal monopolist will be forbidden to set an exorbitant value on the commodity he controls...
...Rose. In TIME for Aug. 24 you will find a comedy called A Lucky Break marked unsatisfactory. The comedy now reappears with music added and remains strictly routine. It is about a rich man who discovered that his old home town loved him for himself and not his money. Fair music and moderately adept performers are included. One imitation monkey-dance by Hansford Wilson is all that mattered much...
...christen a safety razor? (See Music.) 13) What is the real reason the University of London has not been quick to accept the gift of the City of London? (See EDUCATION.) 14) Define an Alaskan "sour-dough." (See AERONAUTICS.) 15) The I. C. C. has set a certain "fair" mark (percentage) for earnings on its own valuation of the property values of Class I railroads. What percentage? (See BUSINESS...