Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago's Century of Progress last summer was a sweltering little booth labeled "Anthropometric Laboratory for the Measurement of Man." Many a male & female visitor to the Hall of Social Sciences went in to get measured, answer the queries of Harvard scientists. When the Fair was over the researchers took back to Cambridge data on 3,100 Fairgoers. Harvard's famed Anthropologist Earnest Albert Hooton (Up from the Ape) declared the Chicago material was "the best anthropological cross-section of the American people ever made...
...willing to be fair, I think you will admit that in a short time the examinations will be looked forward to with great eagerness--men will compete hotly for the honor of representing their departments, and what is now regarded with a bit of mal de mer, will be looked on, to use Dwight Fiske's immortal word...
...think it is fair to say," Roberts said, "that the material we removed from the graves showed an artistic ability to create designs, carve bone, and work metal that reached the peak of the achievement of primitive American peoples. These people were living at the time of the Spanish invasions and were probably killed when the Spaniards murdered nearly 2,000,000 Panamanians in their search for gold...
...there are free-&-easy in interpreting the rule against blocking, thus favoring the offense. In New England the blocking rule is severely enforced. To a lesser degree the same is true in East, South and Northwest. Even without hope of recognized national supremacy, each league last week had a fair idea of what teams would be in the top flight for the final play-offs next month. Midwest. Whether or not they offer the best basketball in the U. S., Midwest games stir up most excitement and draw biggest crowds. Farmers from miles around drove into Lafayette, Ind. for last...
...developed a critical technique for the writing of history, and only a dull reading back of our own critical standards can prove that Vincent, and his learned contemporaries, were themselves credulous of these legends. If they did not distinguish fact from fancy in the modern scholarly manner, the fair inference is that this proves, not a moony confusion of fact with fancy, but the lack of a systematic scholarly apparatus for the distinction...