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Word: fairness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ways: by gunfire from the ground or gunfire from defending planes. Antiaircraft gunnery is soundly organized, having within each combat component (of four guns per battery) an effective detection and warning system, based largely on the fact that big planes can nearly always be heard, and in fair weather can be seen, in time to aim the guns. The one large question mark remaining is accuracy, with which the Army was not primarily concerned last week. Pursuit plane defense is not so soundly organized. Bomber speeds of 250 m.p.h. so nearly equal (and in some types exceed) pursuit speeds that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Wonderful Net | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

...Last week Distilled Spirits Institute announced that no liquor will be sold, served or shown in the Hall of Distillers at the New York World's Fair. Instead D.S.I. will display proof of distilling's contributions to U.S. economy and history, exhibit raw materials used in making spirits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIQUOR: Spirits' Soul | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

...will be the spearheads of the Harlow offense. With Austle Harding ready to go, and with Frank Foley and Bob James ready to do some tossing of their own, there just remains to be seen who of Don Daughters, Bob Green, Torby Macdonald, and Joe Gardella will be the fair-haired boy who will usurp the honor of snagging the aerials...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Heading for a Fall | 10/22/1938 | See Source »

...weather man confidently predicted fair and cold, the reverse of usual Dartmouth weather for the clash. Meanwhile the mackinawed men from the hills of Hanover kept pouring into Harvard by the twos, threes, fours, and squads. The curtain rises

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Heading for a Fall | 10/22/1938 | See Source »

...failure of "Room Service" to click well is a fair warning to producers that a good play is one thing, and a good screen reproduction of the same play another. Nothing that Hollywood has purchased from Broadway has succeeded in being a thing of real merit, with the possible exceptions of "The Petrified Forest" and "You Can't Take It With...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/13/1938 | See Source »

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