Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...read no books, boast no intellectual diversions, live generally mediocre lives. By a "personal, house-to-house canvass" Classmate Benchley collected a grim set of 1912 confessions: "I have three children, all of whom look like me. "I have no children, all of them Chinese. (It is only fair to state that this came from a Chinese classmate.) "I have two daughters, one of whom thinks I went to Colgate and the other of whom goes around with a Princeton man. "The only date I remember from my history courses is 800 A.D., the year Charlemagne was made Holy Roman...
Tabor, a science instructor at Episcopal Academy who, wearing a skating cap and sheepskin coat, "shoots" on fair nights from 7 o'clock to n. Dr. I. M. Levitt of Franklin Institute comes out every day to make solar observations on the Cook spectrohelioscope. These data are sent to the Paris Observatory which collects solar reports from all over the world for the International Astronomical Union. Gustavus Wynne Cook is an extremely able and versatile craftsman. In his roomy machine shop on the third floor of "Roslyn House," he made a three-inch star transit of a new type...
...This was fair Fascist-Nazi warning to British Laborites, on the eve of the House of Commons' reconvening this week, that Labor Party Leader Major Clement Richard Attlee has got to show whether his vitals are made of iron or of butter. It was scarcely worth denying that His Majesty's Government are now in cahoots against the Spanish Reds with Hitler and Mussolini...
These are fair samples of what the Russian historian of 1937 is up against in the way of awkward facts dating from the Revolution. The able correspondent Arno Dosch-Fleurot, who long served the New York World, was on the spot in Russia during the Revolution and has written: "While the faces of many individuals in the rush of events remain in my memory, I cannot remember even having seen Kamenev, Zinoviev or Stalin then. Later they and lots of people blossomed out, but in the days of 'do or die' there was just one big figure-TROTSKY...
...estate, but four years passed before a public accounting was made at the instance of persons who became aware of the fortune. Two years ago, when the court was to pass on the audit, the fourth floor of Philadelphia's City Hall was as crowded as a County Fair, and Case No. 2552 of 1932 became a real problem for the Orphans' Court which William Penn set up 248 years ago. Within four months, 3,000 claims were filed, since then 14,000 more...