Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...from some lack of moral sense, few seemed to hesitate to hand their money to friends near the box-office who apparently stood a better chance of getting tickets. So far as the effect on those behind goes, the result is the same in either case. It is obviously unfair, and to prevent the recurrence of such a practice I suuggest that the sales of "rush" seats at the coming concerts be managed in Cambridge as they are in Boston, and that no person be allowed to buy more than one of the twenty-five cent tickets. If some such...
...rebuttal, the negative repeated the statement often made during the debate, "Where immigration is most, unemployment is least." The literacy test, also, is obviously unfair in that it would bar 300,000 people when only 3,000 should be barred. There is absolutely no connection between the criminal and illiterate elements. Finally, figures and experience show that the southern foreigner can be assimilated, and that he can be educated in our schools so that he is not a drag on the community, which was claimed by the affirmative...
...delicate as to be almost impossible. The action of the Student Council on athletes writing signed articles for newspapers, is consequently extremely happy. Each individual case will now be decided upon by the two men best fitted to judge; and without laying down any rules which may be unfair, will prevent any objectionable work of the kind...
...this Professor Durand compared with what, to him, is the only safe policy, prohibition. The term "regulation" means price regulation. If we do this, it is said, the "teeth of the Trusts will be pulled." Experience shows that large corporations like the Standard Oil have been able to maintain unfair competitive prices. If prices were regulated by the Government the power of the Trusts would be broken...
Pools, which Professor Durand defined as agreements in the scale of prices and other commercial regulations between two or more corporations, are, like the Trusts, worthy of serious thought. Although, by reason of their loose organization, they are less able to maintain monopolies and other unfair competitive methods, experience shows that the public, as a rule, has been forced to pay excessive prices for those articles on which the pools have operated...