Word: unfair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would be unfair to judge Mr. Agar's work on any such basis as this. For although he assumes the unfortunate manner, in such cases, of one imparting state secrets, his original intent encompassed far more than a superficial reduction of Messrs. Samuel Eliot Morison and James Truslow Adams. "The People's Choice" was inspired by the logical connection between the problems which confront Mr. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the coronation of Democracy with its owners in 1829. His thesis, conveyed through the apt medium of presidential biography, is briefly this: since 1789, America has progressed through three cycles...
This sort of thing is unfair to the unsuspecting reader and viciously unfair to the author, who, I suspect, would prefer that his works were never read if they must first be emended by some virtuous Headmaster Bluenose bent on removing all traces of those ugly old Facts of Life. Is this a university or a boarding-school for neurotic girls? You men--especially you new men--who object to being treated like children will boycott courses where this disgusting practice obtains until it is removed. Sedgwick Mead...
First: No student in Harvard should enjoy privileges, such as participation in House life, for which he does not pay. (The question of scholarships is not to the point here.) Such a situation would be unfair, unworkable, and quite undesirable...
...accounting, the characteristics of the modern corporation, and related problems, with especial attention to railroads. The second half year is devoted to the problems of government regulation and the comparative success of the various types of regulation: the public utility type, the anti-trust laws, and the prevention of unfair competitive practices. The first half year particularly seemed disorganized, and the lecturers felt called upon at the end of each semester to outline what they had been talking about. The reading is comprehensive; the lectures generally fair enough, though not inspiring...
...Charles F. Tuttle of Manhattan which circularized stockholders objecting that the preferred stockholders were being deprived of their prior claims on the company's income without adequate compensation, that common stockholders were to be deprived of their proper equity in the company, that the plan was "unscientific" and unfair to all classes. Chase Ullman of St. Louis got together another group of dissenting stockholders. Finally a third group, a Stockholders' Advisory Committee headed by M. W. Borders, Kansas City lawyer, and William Morgan Butler of Boston, got into action. More noisy than the others they carried their fight...