Word: unjust
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they desired the means from which the end inevitably follows. They did not preach murder, but they preached the premises of which murder is the consequence. In Parliament, in the press and in the public speeches, they inculcated hatred of England. They taught that her claims were unjust, that she was the oppressor of Egypt and that all forms of resistance to her would be right and praiseworthy, were they but possible...
Notably, his biographer finds, Wagner was unjust to Conductor Lachner, to Robert von Hornstein, his friend, to his first wife Minna, to all hostile critics. His disposition was tempestuous, overbearing; he never paid his bills; not merely asked, but demanded loans of his friends as a condition of continued friendship; was enraged at Minna for her imbecilic protests at his open amours; indignantly resented any interference? even the most pacific?from the husband or family of any lady who chanced to be the object of his rather various affections. A boorish, choleric, tactless, amorous gentlemen was this Wagner, improvident...
...Chapman's protest against the election of a Catholic as a Fellow of the University will generally be regarded as an unjust and premature crying of fire. The days have long passed when intelligent people seriously believed that the Roman Church could hope to dominate the educational system of the United States, the separation between Church and State has become so traditional in the United States that it seems certain to remain. Even Catholics cannot be so dead to the facts as to hope that one religious denomination can ever control the liberal universities and the schools of the country...
...Dunker '25, President of the Student Council, declared that he was strongly in favor of the new faculty ruling, as was the whole Student council. Dunker said that last year's Student Council had brought forward the fast that the inequality of the probation periods made probation an unjust bounden to men who failed at the November hours, since it is 13 weeks to the mid-year examinations, while men who go a probation at the mid-year examinations may regain their good standing after a six-week period at the April hour examinations. This system places too much emphasis...
...industries depending on the use of alcohol have steadily declined, owing to the drastic and unjust methods employed by the prohibition office, while establishments engaged in the use of alcohol illegitimately have flourished by falsifying bonding warehouse records and, obtaining alcohol without tax, are flooding the market with preparations containing it at a price far below the standard at which legitimate concerns must sell...