Word: unfairnesses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Japanese Government, which consists in maintaining an attitude of strict neutrality towards the contending forces, remains unchanged in every respect, and that should the course of events be such as to render the above-mentioned measure imperative, the Japanese Government will exercise due care to provide against any unfair consequences arising for either of the two opposed parties...
Persons who skimmed through the Boston despatch containing these words and decided that any man who uttered them must be a living image of Author Sinclair Lewis' fictional creature, The Man Who Knew Coolidge (TIME, April 23), were both unfair and inattentive. The Lewis creature's name was Lowell Schmaltz. The real Boston man to whom the above remarks were credited was Edward F. Horrigan, a Massachusetts fire investigator...
When weighing the publication in the scales of preparation for life it were unfair to place scholarship itself in the other scalepan. The undergraduate attitude at Harvard is a nebulous thing on many points, but not on this one. And since the ghost of the Big-Man-in-His-Class shows only a periodic taste for walking, it seems fair to believe that Harvard undergraduate publications offer the same reward as any other serious, nonathletic outside activity of college life: experience with human beings...
James Joseph Tunney (champion fisticuffer) said: "Miss Bishop is one of the loveliest girls I have ever known, but it is decidedly premature and unfair to her to suggest that we are betrothed." Cinemactress Caroline Bishop said on the same day in the same place, Miami Beach, Fla.: "I think Mr. Tunney one of the most admirable men of today, but it seems an unfair strain on our friendship for newspapers to have us engaged every time we are seen together." The New York Daily News (tabloid) said...
With 60 entries in the event and 45 men actually competing last year, the race proved to be unfair to contestants started in the last rows...