Word: fairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under The Presidency, TIME, Feb. 25, you mention the proposal to convert Mount Weather, Va., into a weekend retreat for future presidents. You state that this property is 55 miles from Washington "over fair dirt roads." This is news to your readers who live on the main road between these points and who travel daily over the paved State highway which covers the greater part of the distance. Between Leesburg, county seat of Loudoun County, and Bluemont at the foot of the mountain, there remain a few short stretches of "fair dirt roads" broken by stretches of paving through...
...cost of the Basin and its bridges, will pay about $500,000, more as its share of the Cottage Farm Bridge, and is paying about $175,000. per year as its share of the original cost of the Basin and the Dam and for maintenance changes. It therefore seems fair to ask that the drive on the Boston side which would help Cambridge traffic should not be omitted on account of the local clamor against...
...declined for reasons not announced. A challenge then was sent to Yale for an examination on any number of subjects, but this likewise came to enough. Previously the University had tried to make arrangements with Princeton, but in this case the difference in the systems of curriculum prevented a fair match...
...developed from the growing national consciousness of the nineteenth century. Effects had been made to meet the problem prior to 1918, and in several of the peace treaties of the past century, notably in those which established the independence of several Balkan states, provision had been made for the fair treatment of these minorities. The difficulties in the way of a satisfactory settlement were, however, great...
...perhaps no wonder that Bishop Garland was vexed by such persistent bad luck, but it seemed hardly fair to charge the four decliners with fear of hard work. Each is industrious in a busy diocese. A bishop coadjutor helps a bishop and succeeds to his position after his death, retirement or removal from office. Herein he differs from a bishop suffragan who also helps a bishop but does not necessarily succeed him. The yearly salary of the Philadelphia bishop coadjutor is $10,000, plus $2,500 for maintenance of a house...