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Word: unfairly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...current situation neither gains prestige nor pays for the athletic program. It is unfair to customers, players, and coaches...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, Donald Carswell, and Bayard Hooper, S | Title: Harvard Football: Which Way Out? | 11/25/1949 | See Source »

Before the war, there was a vigorous Student Council committee known as the Committee on Consumer's Aid and Unfair Practices. In essence, the committee served as a Better Business Bureau for Harvard Square, protecting students against unscrupulous merchants and fly-by-night outfits out to make a quick buck at student expense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Consumer First Aid | 11/17/1949 | See Source »

...have never yet retracted a word of . . . fair comment," boasted Columnist Westbrook Pegler one day last week. Next day, in the New York Journal-American and 249 other papers carrying his column, he retracted a thousand words of unfair comment. As a legal settlement of several multimillion-dollar libel suits, Pegler published a 98-word apology to Delaware Businessman Abram N. Spanel for implying that he was "a Communist or fellow traveler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Unfair Enough | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Pressure. Most of it came from U.S. gold miners and such big gold-producing nations as Canada and South Africa. Their argument: at the present price of $35 an ounce, gold mining is unprofitable, and production is slumping. Furthermore, it is unfair to hold down the price of gold when all other commodities have risen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Gold Fever | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...unusual political alliance developed during the campaign. Curley has received strong support throughout the race from Russel S. Codman, Jr. '20, a Beacon Hill Republican and Boston's third largest taxplayer. Codman, Boston's Fire Commissioner, at a rally last night called on Curley's opponents to "desist from unfair and distorted charges of corruption in the Curley administration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Politicians Finish Race As Country Heads for Polls | 11/8/1949 | See Source »

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