Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expect to elect candidates, seven are West, where Republican machines have broken down completely. Of the 20 left. Republicans are sure of only three and have no better than an even chance in most of the rest. Of the 34 Senators up for election this year, Republicans have a fair chance of electing nine, but the fight between Rooseveltian and Conservative Democrats is likely to hold the centre of the stage. Anyhow, the Democratic majority in the Senate is so overwhelming that it would take until 1940 to upset it even if the G. O. P. were given an improbable...
When Gropius came to Harvard one long-standing gripe among architectural students was that the "faculty jury," which judged all undergraduate designs, could not be as fair as the individual professor who set each class its problem. To this complaint Professor Gropius lent a sympathetic ear, changed the system. Another Gropius innovation was instruction in industrial design by Marcel Breuer, a Hungarian designer who is credited with having developed the first tubular chair. Now in prospect are workshops where Breuer pupils may learn at first-hand the uses of modern materials. But the most extraordinary proof of Architect Gropius...
...hope the New York World's Fair of 1939 may become the occasion for the birth of the American Poster. . . . Poster production in Europe [see TIME, Feb. 28 for posters in Spain] is decades ahead of poster development in this country, simply because European advertisers have learned the commercial benefits of being outrageously noncommercial in poster art. . . . We have nearly all of our posters drawn by "pretty girl" artists and by uninspired hack commercial artists who draw the same banal signs for everybody and for everything...
...indifferent about his own money, Albert Einstein has a strict moral sense about other people's. His associates were amused last week because he had put his foot down against too many free copies of The Evolution of Physics being scattered around Princeton. It did not seem fair to the publishers...
Instead of a fair assessment of comparative merit, there was a crucifixion. Oratory was impaled on sentiment. Impartiality was considered the spawn of Communism...