Word: unfair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course this is grossly unfair. The person who writes in a book which is common property is a philosopher. He is an egoist, who believes other that his is the only mind which can be proved to exist, and therefore that his actions can have no effect on other minds, or that his mind is universal to such a degree that all which is important to him is important to all. From such a cosmic attitude the fact that poor bookworms suffer from painter's colic is negligible. In his underlining the egoist is making a modest bid for immortality...
...purpose of gaining allies for the ever-threatening revolution. In this instance their championship of the Scottsboro boys appears to have been at best ill-advised. The race prejudice which grips the South did not need the addition of a red-phobia to assure the accused Negroes of an unfair trial, but the Communists increased the difficulties of their proteges when they made an issue of the affair...
...purpose of gaining allies for the over-threatening revolution. In this instance their championship of the Scottsboro boys appears to have been at best ill-advised. The race prejudice which grips the South did not need the addition of a red-phobia to assure the accused Negroes of an unfair trial, but the Communists increased the difficulties of their proteges when they made an issue of the affair...
...Superior Court has entered a decree in the suit in Equity brought by the Student's Laundry as plaintiff against the Harvard Cooperative Society. The decree confirms the Master's Report, which was favorable to the Society, and dismisses the plaintiff's bill, which charged the Cooperative Society with unfair competition...
...this year, and has borrowed without permission from the plaintiff, trade names, services, and methods of measuring charges. Among the methods borrowed are the "piece system" and "the dollar bundle", both of which systems were originated in the Square by the Students Laundry. The case comes under the heading "unfair competition," and the plaintiff's charges are based on the claim of property rights...