Word: unfair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: ...Time usually cleverly dramatizes the news and for the first time I have seen it obviously unfair and attempting to raise class hatreds. CLARENCE MARK...
Neither Postal's President Major General George Sabin Gibbs nor I. T. & T.'s Sosthenes Behn was on hand to defend Postal's stand. But Vice President Howard L. Kern, taking a tip from the Senate Banking & Currency Committee, hoisted the red flag of "unfair propaganda." Anyone with half an eye, said he, could see that "the code proposed by NRA was designed to meet the abuses pointed out by Western Union representatives themselves." Though the code would cost Postal $2,767,000 per year in increased wages, the company was willing to subscribe...
Conspirators is not an unfair word to apply to the armament makers of France--yet it must not be said with any melodramatic connotations. Probably the conspirators are not bad men at all in their personal lives and their individual contacts with society. Sir Basil Zaharoff, the passion of whose declining years is orchid culture, would probably not be aghast at the suggestion that he was the greatest murderer the world has ever known. He has heard it too often. And he may even enjoy the irony of his gifts (they took a few millions out of the hundreds...
...tutor. The latter is in a much better position to pass upon the student's creative ability and understanding than are most of his instructors, and it is upon the possession of these attributes that the honor's degree should be awarded. Course grades are inadequate, and often unfair tests of a student's understanding or ability to think creatively. Those are best displayed in tutorial work and the culmination of that in general examinations at the end of four year's intensive study...
...illustrious father has nearly succeeded in making the Baltic a Swedish lake. While the conception of Queen Greta is a pleasant one, that of Queen Christina should not be neglected. Admittedly, assigning her to a role in which she had to give up a kingdom for love was unfair; her unusual technique was sufficient. But to place John Gilbert as the lover was suicidal. It results in a rather good, and ocassionally amusing. Garbo-Gilbert perpourri but as an interpretation of Swedish history, "Queen Christina" leaves much to be desired...