Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First, Harvard should be represented by a team capable of holding its own against that of any other university following similar athletic policies. To be continually defeated by such teams is unfair to players, injurious to Harvard pride, and harmful to football receipts, which normally bear the brunt of expenses incurred by other teams...
...culminated in the bombardment of the Karl Marx Of in Vienna and in the assination of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss. This prose though a trifle too literary, that is, too suggestive of the set piece, reveals Mr. Lehmann as a sensitive commentator, striving to keep his balance. It would be unfair to compare this part with Stephen Spender's "Vienna," a longish poem which has just appeared, for the difference of genres precludes any such comparison...
...views. My friend Lord Justice Slesser holds some opinions with which I profoundly disagree, but he is a judge in whom I-at any rate-have complete confidence, a scholar and a lawyer. . . . The proposed bill would put Justice at the mercy of party whips. Intolerable, My Lords'! Unfair to the bench, unfair to the bar, unfair to the public...
Perhaps these exams spur a few lazy scholars out of the pre-vacation slump, but in subjecting everyone to such an ordeal in order to stimulate a sluggish minority is patently unfair. The contention of others that they benefit by a review of their studies is true to a certain extent, but a quizzing of trivial details contributes little to one's education, while those broader essay subjects which evoke individual thought require more time. If some mid-semester's grade is necessary, then to submit term papers would be far more profitable than hour exams. Irksome and worthless, those...
...Edward Jones, head of the National Petroleum Council, wrote President Roosevelt demanding the removal of Secretary Ickes as Administrator of the Petroleum Code. Mr. Ickes was accused of being ''incompetent, inexperienced, unqualified, temperamentally unfitted, unfair, biased . . . lacking in a proper conception of real government functions." Said the Jones letter: "He exhibits a poor and ridiculous management of the industry's affairs and plays upon public opinion by frightening the people about false issues such as an impending and imminent oil shortage, waste...