Word: unfair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comparison. No serious minded Harvard undergraduate can read them without asking his introspective self, "Am I an athlete--or an aesthete?" When he has decided whether the shelf-mark or the shoulder-pad is his birthright, he will undoubtedly realize that for a long time he has been very unfair to his antagonists, the shoulder-pads or the shelf-marks--whichever it is that...
...That it is unfair to business rivals because it indicates when one's opponents are hard pressed financially and enables one to exert undue pressure at such times...
TIME agrees with Mr. Armstrong that a characterization of the "trade" of the Marines as "mud and alcohol" is unfair. TIME'S dramatic critic, straining inadvisedly for epigram, became thoughtless, careless, callous. No offence was intended. But, since an offence was committed, an apology is herewith tendered...
...something about it-It, the Federal Trade Commission. Back of the question which began to be agitated last week, is a bit of history going back to 1914: In that year, the Commission was created by Congress. Its business was to investigate complaints made to it of alleged unfair practices in trade (misbranding of commodities, price-cutting to put competitors out of business, etc., etc.)-If it found the alleged practices to be true, it was to issue an order to cease and desist (similar to an injunction). The Commission was to have five members appointed by the President, confirmed...
Such preference, if it kept boys out of Harvard College merely because they were not sons of Harvard men, would be unfair to those boys also. The great benefactions which have been bestowed on Harvard College were given not for the sake of the sons of Harvard men, but for the good of the great community as a whole, which Harvard, in part, serves. Inbreeding within the student body would be quite as dangerous for the College itself as inbreeding in the Faculty would be. The latter kind of limitation has not been observed at Harvard within our memory...