Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since then the question resolves itself into one of preparation, man must search carefully for those qualities which are most likely to strengthen him in his fray with the thing he has built. A fair contention is that these lie with in the realms of the spirit. Whether the dreams of philosophy or the vapors of mysticism or the rigors of a revealed religion or even the flickering flare of a poet's fancy lead him on, he must at last seek refreshment and reincarnation in the world of a Jesus, a Plato, a Shakespere and a Dante, a world...
...when a man is in this state, and the questioning spirit asks what is fair, or honorable, and he answers as the legislator has taught him, and then arguments many and diverse refute his words, until he is driven into believing that nothing is honorable any more than dishonorable, or just and good any more than the reverse, and (then) . . . when he ceases to think . . . the notions which he most valued . . . honorable and natural as heretofore, and he fails to discover the true, can he be expected to pursue any other life than that which flatters his desires...
...maxims and habits of pleasure which flatter and attract the soul, but do not influence those of us who have any sense of right, and they continue to obey the maxims of their fathers. . . . Now, when a man is in this state, and the questioning spirit asks what is fair or honorable, and he answers as the legislator has taught him, and then arguments many and diverse refute his words, until he is driven into believing that nothing is honorable any more than dishonorable, or just and good any more than the reverse, and so of all the notions which...
...Secretary Mellon thought the Treasury was justified in furnishing rubber boots, coats and hats to Postoffice and Custom House employes stationed there. Then Secretary Mellon wrote a memorandum to Comptroller General McCarl, watchdog of the Treasury, saying that the Galena officials received small salaries and he deemed it only fair to classify rubber boots, etc., as "necessary equipment," not as "wearing apparel" (which must be paid for by the men themselves...
...adroit sleight Britain might be granted the blessings of a decimal coinage. A comnittee of the Federation of British Industries is urging that a 20% increase in value be added to the penny. There would then be 10 pennies to the shilling and 200 to the pound; a fair start at decimals for Britishers long wedded to "crowns," "farthings," and other odd lot coins...