Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conviction that I should not strive for the nomination, and my obligations as Secretary of Commerce preclude me from making any personal campaign. I must rely wholly upon my friends in Ohio to conduct it, and to conduct it in a fair manner and with steadfast regard for Republican success in the state and the nation. It is my special desire that expenditure of money shall be strictly limited and rigidly accounted...
...secondary line of cruisers, several hours behind the leaders; acting the same way. In fair weather, aircraft carriers would cooperate with these cruisers, their circling swarms scouting far ahead...
Senator Johnson's speech was florid but fair. It outlined the causes and history of the strike. It repeated the miners' charges, the operators' defense and countercharges. It laid blame heavily, but more important than laying blame it focussed public attention upon immediate, imperative necessities to which blame seemed irrelevant...
Thomas Alva Edison, pseudo-atavistic, grows expert with cocoanuts. At the South Florida fair blue ribbons were tacked to his cocoanuts. He had the best; also the largest cluster. Luther Burbank started him in the cocoanut game. Recently Mr. Edison extended his Florida agricultural activities to experiments for rubber vines...
...fortify his oath of admission to the Bar, saying: "I swear I will join with my adversary in waiving a jury trial wherever and whenever it can possibly be done without the sacrifice of a fundamental right. I will join with my adversary in supporting a trial Justice in fair comment upon the evidence and reasonable direction to a jury on the facts. I will join with my adversary in fair concession of undisputed facts...