Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...probably true that the number of students in American colleges is too high. In order to decrease this number, however, the class to be eliminated must first be designated. It would be obviously unfair to make the classification on the basis of financial resources. If a scholastic barrier is set up, however, it will be found that those eliminated are mostly men able to pay their own way, since the less able of the indigent have already fallen by the wayside. Thus it is evident that, although limitation of enrollments might be beneficial, it would emphasize rather than solve...
...There is also the problem of economic loss due to sickness-a very serious matter for many families with and without incomes, and. therefore, an unfair burden upon the medical profession. Whether we come to this form of insurance soon or later on, I am confident that we can devise a system which will enhance the remarkable progress made in the practice of the profession of medicine...
...bills the pound sterling will be accepted as worth 16 Swiss francs flat. Last week the pound was worth 15.31 Swiss francs on international exchange. In effect the Swiss hotelkeepers had merely cut their rates. But Paris seethed with angry talk: "The Swiss, like the Germans, are creating an unfair cut-rate currency. What is the difference between the 'tourist franc' in Geneva and the 'blocked mark' in Berlin...
Some 20 years ago socialites of the Royal Automobile Club fought a successful nation-wide battle to eliminate speed traps as "unfair and un-British." Discreetly from sources close to R.A.C. last week came threats: "It may become necessary to organize trigger squads of from 30 to 40 cars of air gunners and shoot up all the beacons in London." From his Ministry of Transport publicity-courting Major Hore-Belisha retorted, "We are rushing the construction of new beacons and will have installed 20,000 by Christmas...
This meeting is another expression of indignation by a group of undergraduates who consider the treatment of the Karlsruhe and Hanfstaengl prisoners unfair. Last Monday two delegations made an unsuccessful visit to District Attorney Foley to ask him to drop charges against the Karlsruhe demonstrators...