Word: unjust
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...secure justice: [a] Money collected from past generation is to be refunded to this which has made no sacrifice: Cong. Rec., X. X, 166; [b] Pays to the state, which was never liable money collected from the individual: Q. J. E., III, 452; [c] The refund will be proportionately unjust on account of the change in the population of the different states: Q. J. E., III, 459; Cong. Rec., XXII...
...sermon was an exposition of how hard and persistently people work to attain low ends and to what an extreme they carry worldly lives; and ended with an exhortation to extend those energies in a worthier and higher cause. The story of the unjust steward was cited as a proof of how far worldliness may be carried when resolved to attain its end, and the history of the years of laborious and painstaking work of the Eastern dancing girls was given as an example of how hard people do strive for success in the lower grades of life. Then another...
...read the signs, the time when all the 'varsity teams will be mutually self-supporting is not far off. The graduate treasurer speaks most encouragingly of it; everything points to it. Cannot the Harvard Athletic Association trust to it and the generosity of the University and abandon this unjust rule...
...present system of taxation is so bad as to demand radical change: it is indirect, wasteful, confused, shifting, unjust to the poor, and promotive of dishonesty: Carey, Vol. III, ch. XLIII, secs. 5, 7, 9, and 10; D. A. Wells, Cobden Club Essays, 1871-72, p. 504; D. A. Wells, Lectures at Harvard, March 24th and 31st, 1890; Tucker, "Evils of Indirect Taxation," Forum, Feb. '86; Nathan Matthews, Jr. "Double Taxation," Qr. Jl. of Econ. Vol. IV, p. 339; Quincey, "Double Taxation in Massachusetts...
...Single Land Tax is unjust...