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Word: fairly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the flurry of Divisional Examinations has been completely smoothed out, the Economics Department deserves hearty congratulation upon the skillful job which it displayed in making up the Junior Departmental. Undergraduate approval of this fair examination has been universal, and rightly so. The Department has made a wise choice in selecting its test designers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GIVE A MAN A BOOK HE CAN READ | 5/20/1937 | See Source »

Inconsistency seems to be the breath of life for fair Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 5/19/1937 | See Source »

...final strains of "Fair Harvard", sung by the Glee Club et al, were dwindling off and mingling in concord with the towering spires of Memorial, Sever, and Weld Halls. The soothing clutches of night were clasping the Yard in its soft embrace, for lack of anything better...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TOM THUMB YARD CONCERT ECHOES FROM THAYER STEPS | 5/19/1937 | See Source »

...unemployment compensation bill, they showed small concern for Labor and the masses-small political potatoes in agricultural Nebraska. But they extended the State mortgage moratorium law for two more years, kept in step with the New Deal march toward regulated business. Passed were bills laying down price-fixing "fair trade" rules, creating an NRA-like code for automobile dealers, giving the State Railway Commission jurisdiction over trucking, providing State regulation of itinerant merchants and gasoline transporters. The Unicam chiefly distinguished itself from other State Legislatures in enacting only one freak statute: a section in a bill providing for licensing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEBRASKA: Unicameral Results | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...injured in highway accidents. Declaring that some of these crashes were due to use of unsafe cars, automobile dealers in Indidnapolis concocted a stunt which would both emphasize safety and draw attention to themselves. They announced they would burn $75,000 worth of used cars at the fair grounds because the roads would be safer without them. At 8 p. m. Thursday evening last week the huge pile of jalopies was touched off while firemen and some 25,000 others looked on. It made a magnificent bonfire, but its value as a publicity stunt was slightly vitiated by a somewhat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Junked Jalopies | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

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