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Word: unfairly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only ones to suffer. Already he is planning to clamp down on the night-clubs that allow their entertainers to circulate among the paying customers and drink with them. Closing the burleys implies far more than a question of decency or morality in show business; Moss's unfair censorship strikes at the principles of unimpeded entertainment production...

Author: By Jervis B. Mcmechan, | Title: FROM THE PIT | 3/3/1942 | See Source »

Such a comparison would be unfair to Fenn if it were not realized that Yale's scores came on jump plays with the Eli coming in on the goalie unopposed, where the advantage is all with the forward...

Author: By John C. Bullard, | Title: Stickmen Beaten 4-2 By Yale's Two Third Period Goals | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

...were back in 1937, Wall Street and SEC last week belabored each other with adjectives. A lawyer named Twombly said SEC was "unjust, unfair, un-American." SEC replied by exhuming the ghost of Dick Whitney. A new war had started over how to keep the peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: Back to Philadelphia | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

...smart-aleck piece on a book which even the New York Times finds "earnest," "illuminating," and the best "overall interpretative survey in print." I do not question TIME'S right to print, if it chooses, in the interest of the general amusement, such a wholly misleading and unfair review of a serious book. I feel, however, that in such cases the author is entitled to a few lines of space for a reply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 2, 1942 | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

...President's wife would no more cross a picket line than Queen Victoria would have painted her fingernails.* She marched to the box office, turned in her tickets and got her money back. To protests that the pickets were unfair, Mrs. Roosevelt answered firmly: "Fair or not fair, I cannot cross a picket line." Pausing to point out to Band Leader Meyer Davis (who also arrived full of anticipation) that the play was being picketed, she skittered across the street to a musical, show, trailing Thompson & Lash. Mr. Davis, who has occasionally played at the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: First Lady's Last Word | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

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