Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: ... It seems but fair that you do a bit more investigating into what Dr. Frederick A. Cook has done and what he has not done. I heard Dr. Cook lecture, very, very modest in his claims, immediately after he had returned through the angry-schoolboy newspaper and telegraphic firespittings of Peary. ... If Dr. Cook had not found the North Pole, he thought so and has shown as much, if not more, proof that he did reach it than ever did Peary. The very fact that he has been handed the hot end of a poker ever since should induce...
...Read all about it. How to make love to the fair lady--in easy verse!" That's what the new book is about that the University Press is putting out next month...
...high-flown language of the day, the purpose of the book is set forth in the title pages: that "young gentlemen may read many pleasant fancies and fine devices, and thereon meditate divers sweet conceits to court the love of fair ladies and gentlewomen...
From the comment offered by the six Seniors out for honors and the ten Juniors in Group IV or above this selected, it is hoped that a fair and impartial idea of each field and to some extent an idea of the relative merit or mediocrity of the fields as compared one with another will be gained...
...plus one of the largest assortments of cops and robbers ever captured between the covers of a detective story. This complexity is further increased by the disconnected essay on crime methods which has been interspersed at an average of every five pages. The author is better than a middling fair lawyer in his own right and may be counted on to know what he is talking about--but the author should not talk so much in a detective story, supposedly filled with the fastest action from beginning...