Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sounding the cry for a fair scholarship policy, President Conant declared "we have had fortunate experience" with the "sliding scale National Scholarship" plan at Harvard. "It is perfectly evident to me," he said, "that at the college level, and at the advanced professional school stage, all the institutions of the country have been fishing in one small pond. They have been concerned, by and large, with a competition for the most promising youths in the income tax paying group; and at least three-quarters, or more probably 90 per cent, of the youths of the country...
...abundance in and near the crater. These fragments, ranging from a few ounces to 1,400 lb., constitute the majority of the metallic meteorites recovered anywhere in the world. They show about 92% iron, 6% nickel, 2% of other matter, and this is taken by scientists as a fair sample of the main body...
...become a concert pianist one must thump piano keys five hours a day for at least ten years. To become even a fair-to-middling amateur requires a great deal of patient practice. Inventive minds have long sought painless substitutes for the drudgery involved in learning how to play the piano. Short-cut systems and gadgets of recent years have included Lee Roberts' (Smiles) sliding rule, on which colored dots indicate what notes to play in a given situation; charts distributed by NBC on which chords are indicated by numbers...
...fill Charles Judd's shoes posed a pretty problem for University of Chicago's unorthodox young president, Robert Maynard Hutchins. who has been busy the past year attacking progressive education. Last week, still incorrigibly unorthodox. Bob Hutchins gave the job to the fair-haired boy of progressive educators, Ralph Winfred Tyler...
...Marquessa was not altogether mistress of the occasion. Nevertheless, she took criticism in good part and such questions as she could not answer by specific information she turned aside. Ignoring many breaches of good taste, she later made a statement thanking the Student Body for their "fine spirit of fair play...