Word: unfair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...water rights within 20 years. Populous California, on the other hand, needs water in her rich subdivision, Los Angeles, and elsewhere, and is ready to spend huge sums at once to get that water. The conferees pointed fingers at California's delegates and accused them of unfair bargaining. California protested that the 20-year clause was meant simply to protect one and all from the possibility of demands and projects by Mexico for Colorado water, which crosses a corner of that country to reach the Gulf of California. But U. S. Senator John Benjamin Kendrick of Wyoming forced California...
...have just read in TIME, July 25, B. M. Manly's criticism of President Coolidge. The criticism from any standpoint is unfair, unjust and partisan. The writer excels in a few outdoor and manly arts, but would no more undertake to ride a "bucking bronco" than he would to choke a bear by poking his fist down his throat. The writer would, however, undertake to try conclusions with any ordinary amateur boxer or wrestler, would gamble on his ability as a fisherman, and if actually necessary take a hand in a free-for-all fight. He would not, however...
...Lewis thought her promptness in taking him up seemed "unfair." But the thing was done...
...What is wanted is a general understanding of what is fair in the way of international protection. Say, for instance, we allow 20% or 25% ad valorem tariffs for the protection of living and wage standards. Surely all will agree that tariffs of 50% and 100% are not only unfair to world interests, but are uneconomic. If it costs more than 25% more to manufacture an article at home than abroad, give up making the article and let others make...
...unfair for our flyers to get all the glory while those poor Frenchmen [Captains Nungesser & Coli] are dead," said Joseph Lewis, 39, Negro, as he stood poised on a window sill of his fifth-floor apartment in Manhattan. Then he jumped, died on the pavement below. Mr. Lewis' sister said that he had been melancholy for several weeks...