Word: unjustness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gold key does not mean intellectual power, but merely the ability to grind out high course marks. Although any system of selecting men upon whom to confer recognition of scholastic achievement is necessarily fallible, that based primarily on course marks has, at least at Harvard, been demonstrated inadequate and unjust...
...should be made clear that England is not objecting on the grounds of illegal or unjust prosecution, for there is nothing of that in the present case. She is disputing the right of Russia to bring to trial men believed to have contemplated a grave attack on the State. As yet Britain has presented no good reason why the Bolsheviks should not place these men on trial. She has been able only to cry "Outrage" and adopt the general attitude of the old gentlemen who write letters to the London Times. There seems to be plenty of sound and fury...
...Woodrow Wilson was his good friend, "The Patrick Henry of the Philippines" had his best chance of wrenching his land unconditionally free. In '99 and after, he had shed blood for independence. Now, smoking cigarets by the chain system, he found independence under the terms set by Congress "unjust and absurd." But with racial shrewdness (he is quarter-Spanish) he decided to hold his fire until the independence commission returns to present its arguments to the Legislature. The coming regular legislative elections, which may violently split the majority party, will be in effect a plebiscite...
...becoming increasingly apparent that this exalted office is a sacrificial one, made more so by the unjust and unreasonable criticism of biased partisanship. The time has come for Congress to limit presidential administrations to one term of five or six years, and thus lighten the burden of presidential cares. Especially would this put an end to the undignified spectacle of our President's "electioneering" rôle every four years, and make this great office one of genuine dignity and high service, devoid of many imperfections that at present mark our Presidents as martyrs to an antiquated system...
Iron men and wooden ships-the cat-o'-nine-taiis-South Sea paradise-mutiny- shipwreck-open boats-a trial for piracy, with perjury and missing witnesses-unjust sentence-happy ending-these are the time-honored ingredients of Authors Nordhoff & Hall's surefire seafaring tale...