Word: unjust
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Repugnant -unfair -rotten -archaic-unjust -unacceptable- deplorable...
...Husbandry, he retorted: "The House Ways & Means Committee and, so far, the Finance Committee, by gestures, have given farmers and producers by far the best of it. . . . The Democrats are so anxious to make political capital out of the situation that they are imagining all sorts of rates and unjust schedules...
...mediocre student may develop in four years to the point where he may prove, at the end, that he is worthy of a degree with honors. In order that the award of degrees may be faithful to this theory, which is a sound one, it seems unjust that such a man should miss the prize he has earned because of a slip in perhaps, his sophomore year, when he was not yet of honors calibre. As long as, a senior's course record is satisfactory, it should not prove a belated handicap when the race is won and the medals...
Five centuries ago, when Church was State and monkhood was in flower, Joan of Arc with shaven head prayed on a pile of faggots in Rouen, while Warwick's English soldiers set the pyre alight, and the crafty-eyed Bishop of Beauvais, "Unjust Judge Cauchon," twisted the amethyst ring on his finger and watched...
...locked double doors of the House Ways & Means Committee behind which Republican committee members were secretly writing a new tariff bill. Mr. Garner charged that through the doors had seeped many a fact by which shrewd men in trade could profit. Such leaks, he cried, were "unfair . . . unjust . . . not right . . . wrong . . . indefensible!" Republicans calmly retorted that, if leaks there had been about the new tariff bill, they were "unintentional." Certain tariff facts loomed large in ad vance of the bill's presentation: Sugar. The prospect of a higher sugar duty brought to Washington agitated representatives of the Cuban producers...