Word: unfair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...professing himself unable to require his services. Again, there will always be some patients disinclined to admit their inability to pay even if the loss of money incommodes them, and conversely, there will always be some well-off students who may avoid all payment. In particular, the system is unfair to the doctors, who must serve paying and non-paying students alike on their own word...
...course work. A student will always lay aside important and interesting tutorial work to spend time getting ready for the too numerous hour exams. Change the grade system to let a man do what work he wants and make it so the tutorial system does not have such unfair competition in the course work...
...Scottshoro boys were put in the Death House in Birmingham to await electrocution after an obvious mistrial. In that time the case has been reviewed by the supreme Court of Alabama and finally by the United States Supreme Court. All the latter could do, although if found the trial unfair, was to order retrial in the same court and probably under mach the same conditions...
...declared last week that Persia's note on this subject was "so offensive'' that it could not be published. The note charged, according to Persians in the know, that for more than 30 years Britons have exploited Persian Oil lands "in a manner grossly unfair to Persia." Though the original D'Arcy concession (now Anglo-Persian's) was signed in 1901, no oil royalties were paid to Persia until 1914 when only $45,000 was paid, according to the Persian note, and during the War payments were again suspended, being resumed only after the Armistice...
However, any large fixed charge on the term hille, intended to cover attendance at intercollegiate contests as well as the use of athletic facilities, would be manifestly unfair. It is the duty and right of the H.A.A. to encourage "Athletics for All," but it is not their role to prescribe that all shall watch athletics...