Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago to attend the Fair arrived Professional Footballer Cecil ("Red Hot") Burns who had set out on foot from Dallas, Tex. last spring with a bale of cotton on his back (TIME, June 12). Also in Chicago last week arrived Dr. John R. Carter, 52, and his daughters Lois Jean, 13, and Rovena, 9. They had rollerskated from Detroit in seven days, averaging...
...World's Fair in Chicago there was some talk of duplicating the original Parliament. Nothing came of it. Piety at the Fair is represented by Christian Scientist and Roman Catholic exhibits, and a long, L-shaped Hall of Religions with a Gothic tower, containing such churchly wares as Protestants have cared to show (notably the silver Chalice of Antioch which may have been the Holy Grail, and Col. Henry Stanley Todd's virile portrait of Christ-TIME, April 17). Nearest thing to a Parliament is a corollary to the Fair which opened last week at the Hotel Morrison...
...head of nearly 2,500,000 Hindus and Moslems-His Highness Sir Sayaji Rao III, the Maharaja Gaekwar of Baroda. In his Who's Who paragraph the bulky, 70-year-old Gaekwar notes that he "receives a salute of 21 guns." When he visited the World's Fair last week, to his and its immense delight he got his salute. Fair President Rufus Dawes had soldiers drawn up along Michigan Avenue and marched with the Gaekwar in pomp befitting the Fair's first visiting chief-of- state...
...things happened to spoil his plan: 1) A new law went into effect in Illinois giving minority stockholders the right in case of a reorganization to demand a fair appraisal of their equity and to be paid the amount thereof in cash. 2) Three groups of stockholders cropped up to object that the terms of the reorganization were un- fair...
...live in Paris as if nothing was happening ; when that became impossible they went to Mallorca. The attack on Verdun brought them back to Paris, where they decided to equip and drive a Ford truck for the American Fund for French Wounded. Miss Stein did the driving, with fair success. (She never learned how to back very well.) The War over, they settled down again to Art. By this time Gertrude Stein's Three Lives (published in 1909) had given her a reputation among young U. S. writers. "Gertrude Stein and Sherwood Anderson are very funny on the subject...