Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...freeing nations of the concern over reserves, budgetary balances, and in assuring these countries of low money rates and necessary monetary expansion, the authorities show a resort to exchange depreciation gave their economics the necessary stimulus. In so doing, moreover, they put pressure on gold countries, now faced with "unfair" competition, also to give up the gold standard. The longer the list of paper countries the more likely that the remaining gold countries will be forced off gold. World-wide depreciation in terms of old gold parties has been the inevitable result of British-American leadership in these matters...
...neither Democrat nor Republican but I think you take an unfair advantage of the opportunity to place the President in an unfavorable position...
...undergraduate with literary ambitions. Mother Advocate holds several competitions a year, one of which is going on at the present time. These competitions last about six weeks, and, although the work is not easy, unfair demands are not made upon the time of the candidate. According to the consensus of opinion practically all college competitions are well worth while from the point of view of the candidate, even if he doesn't make the grade, Especially true is this of the "Advocate", for the opportunity of writing for a particular publication is excellent training for adapting one's interests...
...rebuke from his former partner Hugh Johnson. The crusty old cavalryman and columnist, who, like Peek, left the New Deal after bickering with Braintrusters, stepped up to a microphone in Philadelphia two evenings later, declared President Roosevelt had broken no agricultural promises, declared Peek's attack "the most unfair yet launched at the President...
...would be unfair not to mention the material gains which this contract will furnish less lucrative sports, as well as the certain amount of pleasure in store for alumni unable to attend these games. But it is more than a little disappointing to find that Yale should weigh these advantages against the many obvious objections and still feel justified in vacating that responsibility of leadership in athletic idealism which we have always felt Harvard, Yale and Princeton should share together...