Word: unjustness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obscure nurse named Madeleine Poirier slaved for years to get Life Convict Ullmo pardoned. She had never seen him, but his sentence impressed her as unjust. She proved that as a young sublieutenant he had sold French military secrets of no great importance, not because he was a black-hearted traitor to his country but because he had been seduced by an adventuress, La Belle Lison. After Nurse Poirier had obtained Lifer Ullmo's pardon all France expected them to fall in love...
...Whig historians, whose anti-Catholic bias is one of the disgraces of modern historiography. Unlike Messrs. Belloc and Chesterton, Mr. Dawson is imbued with the modern ideal of impartiality, and even in his attempt to secure justice for the faith he never leans over backwards into unfairness to the unjust. He is most like Mr. Wyndham Lewis--minus that historian's Gallic irony--in that he is immensely learned, how learned anybody has some opportunity of gauging by reading his "Age of the Gods" or "The Making of Europe." He lectures on culture-history at the University of Exeter, England...
...nothing to be ashamed of has nothing to hide. The Union officials and the heads of the Dining Halls may have adequate but unapparent explanations for everything which seems so distressing and unjust to the observer, But these explanations will never find sympathy with the undergraduate so long as the present timorous and unpleasant attitude toward publicity continues...
...shall say, merely, "Surely, Mr. Hopkins' accusations, as far as Yale is concerned in the matter at any rate, are a little unjust." In speaking of "over-endowed private institutions that do not know what to do with their money," the Administrator is not quite fair to Yale--or to Harvard, Williams, and the other targets of his arrow, for that matter. Right now Yale spends just as much money as it can on aid of self-supporting students, is forced to spend less than she would like to on scholarships and fellowships. True, there are endowments...
Here is an interesting example of the divergence between tutors and tutees which so contradicts the theory of the house plan. To blame either group for this breach would be unjust, for the disparity in age and interests is no unnatural barrier. But some enterprising individuals do enjoy familiarity with their tutors, and that such friendships are not more prevalent is to be regretted. The house dinner if properly handled would present a splendid opportunity to promote such contacts...