Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...numerous counterfeiters, however, made any fair trial of the system impossible. A sort of madness fell upon people; men, women and children joined in counterfeiting, clipping, and sweating the coin. The severest punishments proved ineffective. Macaulay says that the country passed no measure of the value of commodities. Everyone suspected his neighbor of cheating...
...last in 1696 a general recoinage had to be resorted to at the public expense. The expense to this great work was three millions sterling. This recoinage of silver in 1696 removed what had been the chief obstacle to a fair trial of national bimetallism in England, namely, the general corruption of the circulating coin. But still gold was distinctly overvalued in the circulation, while Holland and France were less favorable to gold, more favorable to silver. Consequently these two countries drew away England's new silver coin, replacing it with gold. Finally England tried to check this flow...
Samuel Gilman, 1811, Author of "Fair Harvard...
...enthusiasm on the part of the students. Want of loyalty to a team must never be charged to Harvard men, whose enthusiasm is not wont to flag even in the face of defeat. The Athletic Association is in need of help, and if Harvard is to have a fair chance in the intercollegiate contest next spring, student interest must revive. The men training for the team owe it to the University to do their best to bring her victory, and it is certainly the duty of the students to see that the efforts of their representatives do not fail...
...England has to look after the welfare of her colonists. It is her rule, which binds the colonies to her. The Venezuelans have never offered fair arbitration. Lord Salisbury said that he would not put under foreign arbitration the territory which has been for so long a time occupied by Englishmen, and previously by Dutch. He does not say "We will not arbitrate anything within the Schomburgk line...