Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...official answer in the U. S. An arresting character study of Nikolai Lenin during the last days of the Provisional Kerensky Government Lenin in October went far out of its way (but never off the present "party line") to convince U. S. cinemaudiences that Stalin was Lenin's fair-haired boy, that Lenin trusted him much more than he did "idiotic" pessimists like Trotsky, "traitors" like Leo Kamenev, Grigory Zinoviev. With youthful, black-browed Stalin standing stolidly at his right, puffing on a Hawkshaw pipe, Lenin (Boris V. Shchukin) addresses his colleagues. "Stalin is right," he barks, "there must...
...ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter-pi-is usually given in schoolbooks as "approximately" 3.1416 or 3.14159. As a decimal it can never be expressed exactly, but the decimal value has been carried out by patient mathematicians to 707 digits. At the Paris Fair last year this huge number was written, for the edification of fairgoers, round & round in a spiral on the inside wall of a circular room...
Turning to the collegiates, the picture is brighter, or rather darker, since Harvard must encounter the Purple later on. Holy Cross has undoubtedly acquired, by fair means or foul, one of their best looking nines in a long time. They only made five hits, but every one came at the right time, and their defensive work, both infield and oufield-field, was nothing short of sensational. Pitchers Lefebvre (sp.), and Kenney looked good enough to give Fred Mitchell's Crimson plenty of trouble...
...point of view of students, its conclusions may not always square with those of University Hall. Since every variety of reaction to any one course is possible among undergraduates themselves, some men may find that they have been misguided. But every effort is made not only to be scrupulously fair to every course and every instructor, but also, through careful choice of a cross section of students in the several departments, to present as representative a picture of undergraduate thought as is possible...
...National Automobile Dealers Association has done just the reverse, with these results last week: 1) Wisconsin's Congressman Gardner R. Withrow, directing the Federal Trade Commission to investigate automobile dealer-manufacturer relations; 2) FTC acquiesced to the N. A. D. A. petition for a conference to establish fair trade practice rules, chose April 26 as the day, Detroit as the place. On the agenda, among other things, said FTC, are "various forms of misrepresentation, including misleading illustrations; use of fictitious prices and terms of sale; false invoicing; coercion; commercial bribery; finance charge 'packing,' and price discrimination...