Word: unfair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meeting of the Moscow Soviet, prostitution was recognized as a legitimate profession. Public women are hereafter to claim politeness from the police. M. Semashko, Soviet Health Commissioner, said that increased prostitution was the result of Russia's present economic policy and that it would be unfair to persecute women for earning a living. Hence, prostitutes are classed as working women. The resolution was passed unanimously...
...However, there is nothing in the message which will give encouragement to the farm bloc in their insistence that freight rates on agricultural products should be further reduced, or to those who advocate confiscation of property by unfair methods of valuation...
...professors more widely than do the university presses? So far as we can see they do not. And if not, why not? Well, the big publisher has a big,--and expensive,--organization, and he must make money if he is going to be successful. We do not think it unfair to professors to say that only a very small percentage of them ever write books, which measured by the standards of the big publishers, have a large sale. Bookstores will not carry that kind of book in stock, and as publishers' advertising is largely for the benefit of the bookstores...
...common property of husband and wife to the spouse having control of the income. (Some states allow husband and wife to split this return, an unfair advantage over citizens of other states...
...question of the schedules is, of course, always with us. Quite naturally there is some feeling at Yale and more particularly at Princeton that the present system gives Harvard, with two weeks between its major games, an exceptional and unfair advantage. But Harvard and Yale have always refused to consider any system which did not bring the season to an end with the traditional contest between the Crimson and the Blue. On this rock have foundered all the plans for rotating schedules and the like. However large some particular game may bulk in any specific year the contest with Yale...