Word: unfair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Constant efforts are being made to help young people become acclimatized to strange and new conditions. The attempts made to ease the way after graduation are keeping pace with the endeavors to smooth the transition from preparatory schools to colleges. It is not unfair to say that the former should receive the greater emphasis because a wrong step taken at the beginning of a business or professional career is often irremediable. To prevent such mistakes is the task of the graduate advisers. They are in no sense to be considered employment agencies, but they can render signal service by informing...
Railroads made much Washington news last week. The Interstate Commerce Commission issued its annual report. Timing their outcry to coincide with the opening of Congress, rail executives announced their legislative demands for relief from "unfair competition." Labor assembled to advance its six-hour-day program. The Senate killed legislation to regulate interstate bus traffic. Pennsylvania R. R., disguised as a holding company, was ordered to drop its Wabash and Lehigh Valley stock in the interest of larger merger plans...
...humbly claimed blame for the printer's blunder. Also printed was a courtly exchange of flourishes between Publisher Roy Wilson Howard who "instantly offered to pay the difference in price to Macy's," and Macy's who "refused on the ground that it was distinctly unfair to any newspaper to penalize it so heavily...
...must naturally be taken by the Army. The West Point officials made a concession when they agreed to extend their schedule into the examination period to play this year's game, which is as least encouraging. To expect the Navy to agree to some sort of compromise would be unfair since the Annapolls officials have done the right thing, in introducing their three year rule. West Point still remains stubborn in its adherence to its eligibility ruling and the season's records have shown that the latter rule makes for better teams. But until Army changes its policy and gets...
...aware that, in some form or another, be it a rehashed obscurantism or a highly specialized bit of laboratory research, a book bearing his name on the title-page and the Harvard University Press imprimatur on the fly-leaf is a necessary footstool. Naturally, under such conditions it is unfair to criticize the youthful Ph.D. who lets his lecture notes and tutorial work slide in favor of individual research...