Word: unfair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...specifications which no needy man on the list of registrants can fulfill. Consequently others financially less deserving must be given the jobs. This naturally gives rise to misunderstanding among the students, who usually are ignorant of the employer's demands and feel that the Office has been guilty of unfair discrimination...
...view of this measure of success, it seems that the authorities would allow freer access to the special libraries. The various tutorial and special collections, located on the top floor, are often accessible only to the chosen few who have keys. This is often unfair and inconvenient for other students. Special hours are not for them; and all rooms are always closed on holidays, though the rest of the library is open. In addition the Poetry Room, also a special library, is only open during the afternoons when there is a real need for it at other times...
Mutiny among Great Britain's jolly tars was due, Lady Astor thought, to "their sense of fair play. . . . The facts are these: They heard naval pay was to be cut. They looked into the cuts, and these seemed unfair to them...
...ethics. In baseball, it is permissible to rattle a pitcher by making a noise; but a golfer who shouts when his opponent is putting is a boorish cheat. In football, it is ethical to render an adversary senseless by hard tackling; it would be easy but unfair to win a rubber of bridge in the same way. A question of ethics in sport was internationally discussed last week after the conclusion of the Harmsworth Cup (motor boat) races in Detroit...
...presidents met in January 1930, and labeled themselves the Liberal Arts College Movement. Direction of the movement was later given to a committee of 15 under the chairmanship of President Albert Norman Ward of Western Maryland College. After compiling the above figures, he said: "There seems to be something unfair about the distribution of college opportunities. We need the great colleges and the great universities. . . . But at the same time ample provision should be made for all institutions which are called upon to bear their share in providing a liberal higher education for all who are worthy...