Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...withhold from the biologist any essential information: both calves are normal in their sex characteristics. . . . There of course is no question about the bull's future as the butcher will get him shortly, but I hesitate to cut short the life of a potential milk producer without a fair trial...
...Governor Browning's unit plan through the House last week, its supporters had to amend the rules so that instead of a two-thirds majority it needed only a simple majority to pass. When it finally passed, 51 to 44. there still remained a fair chance that the victory would prove a hollow one. Tennessee Courts were promptly asked to rule on a claim that five members of the majority which passed it had no right to their seats because they also held other State offices. Even if the five members are not unseated, thus nullifying the passage...
...thousand of the foreigners now fighting in Spain shall withdraw from the Rightist and also from the Leftist side; 2) After these "token withdrawals," commissioners dispatched by the Non-intervention Committee shall ascertain with fair accuracy the numbers of interventionists, this with a view to the ultimate withdrawal of all in "progressive and proportional" stages; 3) When the Nonintervention Committee finds these large-scale withdrawals have reached a "substantial" total, the Great Powers are to grant full belligerent rights to the Rightist Government and to the Leftist Government...
...Warren Billings for the 1916 Preparedness Day Bombings; of pneumonia; in San Francisco. After his successful prosecution of Mooney and Billings, Attorney Fickert twice ran unsuccessfully for re-election as District Attorney, once ran unsuccessfully for Governor of California. He always swore that Mooney and Billings got a fair trial, though for the rest of his life he was the object of threats and imprecations. When Convict Mooney heard of Attorney Fickert's death he said bitterly: "He'll be chiefly known for that infamous conduct rather than for anything else he ever did, if he ever...
...feel the first tickling of the knife about their necks at the current "Hours." But the rest should find no particular difficulty with the tests, and it is to be hoped that each man does as well as he possibly can, in order that the College may make a fair estimate of him at this time, and not under-rate him simply because he has failed to do his best...