Word: unfair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last year, but it's a shame he didn't inspire the Athletic Association with a sensible mid-western approach to the business of awarding sports letters as well. The HAA could certainly use some new ideas in this department. It has been operating on a dried-up and unfair basis that is as out-of-date as the flying wedge...
...take a "positive constructive role" in atomic development for both war and peace, in regional flood control and water power development, and in large-scale low-cost public housing and clearance. The club felt that public housing would relieve the rent situation-without leaving the way open for unfair treatment of landlords for political reasons...
While the Sword was intelligent (in a treasonable way), Captain Midnight combines the spirit of a college quarterback with the sagacity of a Pinkerton operative. Perhaps it is unfair to suggest that a streak of anti-intellectualism runs through this program and its fellows, but the blackest villains are generally smarter than the heroes, and considerably more sophisticated...
...have to love Mrs. Roosevelt to realize you have written a good piece captioned "First Lady" [TIME, Oct. 25]. I am among those who have doubtlessly been unfair in our judgment of her, but it is wholesome to see an able pen give her her due in . . . TIME...
Explained the Journal's editor, Dr. Morris Fishbein, a nonsmoker: "We have noticed an increasing trend to make health claims in cigarette ads, and we think this practice is unfair and unwise. The A.M.A. believes in self-regulation by industry, if possible. By printing this editorial, the A.M.A. is making an attempt to encourage industry to look into this situation itself...