Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Workers party is not to be confused with the Socialist party, whose candidate is fair-haired Norman Thomas, Princeton graduate, one-time minister. The Socialist platform is virtually identical with the Communist platform except for the revolutionary plank. Because Socialists do not favor overthrowing the existing government, Communists lump Socialists with Democrats and Republicans as "tools of Capital...
Last week the same man, become a politic business man, said: "It will be my purpose and the function of the institute to provide for intelligent individual business management, operating independently, an opportunity to do business at a fair profit and on a basis of wholesome competition, and to see that the industry conducts itself entirely within the law, eliminates unfair trade practices and provides a maximum of service both to the industry and to the public...
...most pressing problems that confront many undergraduates in the present-day colleges is that of adjusting extra-curriculum activities and the demands of scholastic work so that each has a fair portion of the available time. This is particularly the case in a small college where the activities are many and the demand for members among the organizations keen, but it is present in all institutions and Harvard is not without the difficulty...
...mortals. So Great Father thought up subservient man for their entertainment, molded him of refuse. The dying Satyrs tried in vain to teach their lore to this tribe of puny and hornless creatures. But the earth-crawlers spent their happy, ignorant days in pleasant dalliance-not only with fair fellow mortals, but with the immortals who often condescended. Thereupon utter confusion arose as to who was half-god, who three-quarters...
Nowhere in the volume does Mr. Parsons dogmatize on debatable questions. The searcher after facts may find little satisfaction in the fair-minded discussions of divergent leading theories of problems in science, political history, and literature. There are no explanations offered; there is no padding of embarrassing gaps...