Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this class is a fair sample of other classes of '31, it will take more than a mere Depression to keep down your recent college graduate...
...hours later 20,000 people seated in the stands of the State Fair Grounds heard Miss Agnes Samuelson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, introduce Alf Landon. The candidate however was nowhere to be seen. Suddenly great spotlights sought out the west gate of the race track. Riding down the beam came Alf Landon in the tonneau of his car, waving to the crowd. In a moment he was on the platform. When a five-minute demonstration had subsided he began...
...farm issue scheduled to be delivered at Des Moines 48 hours later. Hastily rushed to the press was Governor Landon's own crop insurance plan, to wit: "I believe that the question of crop insurance should be given the fullest attention." Two nights later at the Des Moines fair grounds, the Republican nominee laid down chip-by-chip his full bid for the agricultural vote...
...just missed an-other all-time high. With Gehrig, Dickey, Di Maggio, Selkirk, Crosetti and Lazzeri in the lineup, the Yankees appear to be the hardest-hitting team in the history of modern baseball. Last week they were 2-to-1 favorites to beat an adversary which had a fair claim to equal distinction of another sort...
...called The World Museum, a serialization of Laurence Greene's historical scrapbook of U. S. Journalism, America Goes to Press (TIME, March 30). Publisher Smart and Editor Denby say they will be in the black if they can sell the Esquire feature list to 35 fair-sized papers. With 100 customers, they say they will see big money...