Word: unfair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General protection against unfair foreign competition, owing to lower wages, longer hours or depreciated cur- rency, to any industry which can prove itself substantial and efficient...
...then the Treaty is a domestic concern and the Free State had no business to register it with the League. But, in this case, the British nation has several votes to the one possessed by each of the other nation members, a manifestly unfair situation which the British have hitherto declared did not represent the facts of the case...
...call to your attention facts which show certain statements in the communication published in your columns yesterday to be completely misleading and notably unfair...
...Many a capable man finds it impossible to hit his stride in the beginning, and can only fall into it gradually. Once having found it, however, he can hold the pace. It is largely in the interest of these men that the ruling was revised, since it was thought unfair to subject them to disciplinary action upon such inconclusive evidence as these early tests produce...
...gentleman. . . . There are dozens of papers in the U. S. that already show a determined effort to get out of the old slough. Any managing editor in the land, if he has the will, can carry his paper with them. ... Is the paper trifling, ill-informed, petty and unfair? Is its news full of transparent absurdities? Are its editorials ignorant and without sense? Is it written in blowsy slipshod English, full of cliches and vulgarities-English that would disgrace a manager of prizefighters or a county superintendent of schools? Then the fault belongs plainly not to some remote...