Word: unjustness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intolerable as in the enforcement of laws. If the situation is so complicated that the entire Cambridge Police Department is unable to cope with it uniformly and generally, the fault lies with the law, and not with the situation. The surest way to kill an unfair or an unjust law is to endeavor to enforce it, an eventuality best illustrated by Prohibition. Perhaps it is this prospect that leads the city to apply the parking law to students by the crude technique of random samples...
...gross exaggerations of a DeMille or the onyx convolutions of a Busby Berkeley, Chu Chin Chow is elaborate without being absurd. It relates the story of Ali Baba (George Robey) and the 40 thieves, exhibits the misfortunes which overtake the head thief Abu Hasan (Fritz Kortner) when he inflicts unjust punishment on his favorite dancing girl (Anna May Wong). Interspersed with songs, dances, oriental feasts and samples of British comic opera jocosity, it requires almost two hours for the thieves to reach their bath of boiling oil. U. S. cinemaddicts may find the photography in Chu Chin Chow inferior...
...vote in the League Council against admitting Russia, and the Council can act only by unanimity. In Warsaw, meanwhile, streets had been beflagged as if in celebration of a military victory and the Pilsudski Press was hailing "the historical day of Poland's liberation from humiliation and unjust minority treaties" and "Poland's emergence as a Great Power...
...bidding. ¶He changed specifications on new Boeing pursuit planes, thus delaying construction so long that the type will be obsolete when delivered. ¶He made "false and misleading statements" about Air Corps affairs, and recanted points of sworn testimony. General Foulois promptly branded the charges "most unfair and unjust," asked for an open hearing in court. Popular in and out of the service, he had many a defender. His friends made the point that purchases by direct negotiation, while il legal, were the rule rather than the exception in government aircraft procurements because most specifications could be best...
Thus there are two factors which the Corporation must take into account in its decision: first of all, the scholarship itself, and secondly, the qualifications of the donor. No one will dispute the excellence of the scholarship, but if the policies of Dr. Hanfstaengl are deemed unjust the Corporation obviously cannot offer education from such a source. The CRIMSON feels that since the second factor is so open to debate, the first should be stressed the most. Germany and the United States are on a friendly basis and Harvard should not stir up feeling by acting in a contrary manner...