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Word: unfair (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been extending to our national life the old principle of the local community, the principle that no individual man, woman or child has a right to do things that hurt their neighbors. . . . In the old days it was unfair to our neighbors to allow our cattle to roam on their land. When we got into great cities it became unfair to maintain a pigsty on Main Street. It became unfair to our neighbors if we sought to make unfair profits from monopolies in things that everybody had to use. . . . It was not fair to our neighbors to let anybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Neighbors | 9/4/1933 | See Source »

...They leveled their attack on the constitutionality of federal licensing powers under the Agricultural Adjustment Act. Their case will be heard by Federal Judge James Herbert Wilkerson who declared last week: ''I will not hesitate to throw out the milk code if it is unconstitutional, arbitrary or unfair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Troubled Milk | 8/14/1933 | See Source »

...same time I would like to direct loud cries of scorn at Mr. G. T. Overman whose bigoted, unfair and illogical letter was printed in the same issue. His wife is probably a meek, browbeaten little woman who "makes his life-and "gives him nothing but a pain in the neck'' by occasionally asking him not to swear so much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 5, 1933 | 6/5/1933 | See Source »

Does he know the truism that almost every successful man owes his success to the influence or inspiration of some woman? Why, then, is it unfair for her to continue to share the spoils of victory even though they no longer share the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 5, 1933 | 6/5/1933 | See Source »

...instances in which students have actually been caught with these abridgements in their possession." For final delight, one finds in somber sincerity an advocate for purveyors of erudition who, with uncanny regularity, find pernicious errors and ommissions within their texts. The affidavit regards the use of abridgements "as unfair to the authors." These men get their only reward for years of slavery from the normal "royalties under their contracts with the publishing houses. These royalties ordinarily are dependent on the volume of sales... The abridgement may ordinarily be had at a price from one-fifth to one third...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Widow, Weep For Me | 5/4/1933 | See Source »

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