Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a quota set for each district, it is clear that in order to make up the required number, unfit men often must be admitted else the group will be incomplete. In either case this is unfair to a man of ability who may be excluded because the men from his locality have been chosen. A more progressive plan has been adopted at Harvard where men from districts that ordinarily do not prepare for Harvard are admitted if they rank in the first seventh of their class, and other requirements are satisfied. Here is an unqualified selective process...
...country than the New York governor. He is a member of the Democratic party which, if the unanimous precedents of history count at all, is bound to be swept into power as the party out of office in a time of depression. While it is manifestly unfair to hold the Republican party responsible for the depression, that party has done incalculable harm, through its chief executive, by his Pollyannaish attitude or inability to admit the state of affairs throughout. And within the Democratic stronghold, no candidate is more impregnable. Roosevelt will be handicapped neither by the religious or dripping...
Railroad executives, aware that Southern and Western roads would need most of the help the pool might afford, were inclined to feel that asking one company's stockholders to pay another company's bond interest was unfair, if not downright illegal.* They went to Atlantic City to discuss the matter further at the Association of Railway Executives meeting...
...placing an unfair indictment on Americans to deplore the fact that they are not clearly studying for the purpose of strengthening the United States. This does not, however, prevent them from showing interest in the outside nations which are being built up by students. The International Council gives to all the University a rare opportunity to learn about international affairs. It allows the student to apply the economics and government which he has learned to the many contemporary international problems...
...Defense was not ready. Sadly, indignantly Lawyer Fink protested that it was unfair to give him no warning. Judge Wilkerson was unimpressed, said the defense would have to be ready by 10 a. m. next...