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Word: fairness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could cheer for the elimination of the classics requirements, they should also be able to favor a correct application of the S.B., for almost three-fourths of the 1936 honors men concentrating in the sciences received A.B.'s. What last June's "laude" graduates did may be considered a fair representation of the tendency of those who graduated without honors both in 1936 and previous years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A CASE OF ILLEGITIMACY | 1/5/1937 | See Source »

...full Palestine moon rode one evening last week over Tel Aviv, exclusively Jewish city, the Hebrew Sabbath ended and thousands of Jews began to move toward the Levant Fair Grounds. There they packed the Italian Pavilion to capacity to hear great Arturo Toscanini lead Palestine's first civic orchestra through its first performance. Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope, the British High Commissioner, brought with him a party of notables. Open-shirted German immigrants gathered in rowboats on the adjacent Yarkon River. A few Arab fishermen paddled quietly toward shore, listened respectfully outside the pavilion walls which are still pitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Palestine Symphony | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

...Christmas Eve the three-race pari-mutuel total at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans was $107.20. The five-race total was $169.80, the seven-race $219. Taking, in order, the last digit in the dollar column in each total, the result...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Numbers | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

That number-799-was of vast importance to hundreds of thousands of U. S. citizens, white and black, for Fair Ground mutuel totals are currently used in the best numbers games. It was particularly important last week because the play was heavy in the hope of a Christmas Eve killing. Last year a Negro on Relief in New York's black Harlem dropped dead from shock when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Numbers | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

...admit, after denying it for years, that he collects cash from his followers, handles receipts from restaurants and small businesses operated in his name in Harlem. Last week a Manhattan lawyer who had been after Father Divine for months seemed about to prove him a man of property, fair game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God's Income | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

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