Word: unjustness
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...insistent than body-building enthusiasts are calendar reformers. A high-school course in plane geometry has imbued them with a passion for neat mathematical balance and their sensitive souls are seared by the irregularity of Gregorian months. Unfortunately, spring has its animating influence on the just and on the unjust, and the Fixed Calendar League has emerged from its hibernation to plague honest...
...contrary. That the obnoxious rioting consisted in the untwisting of a few bulbs, that the arrested parties were seated at the time of their arrest, that the supposed "interference with an officer" was but a gentlemanly word-of-mouth remonstrance at what a bystander considered to be an unjust arrest--all this does not seem to have come to the ear of the indignant contributor. So he thunders, "Ecrasez l'infame...
...formal resolution politely denounced the recent White House Conference on Child Health & Protection (TIME, Dec. 1) for not mentioning birth control at all. Dr. Ira Solomon Wile of Manhattan called the White House Conference "a total, a complete and excellently devised demonstration of an ostrich policy. This is unjust to the ostrich, however, as it does not bury its head quite so deeply." Otherwise the birth controllers were placid. They reiterated an old boast that their movement has been endorsed by various sectional conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the Congregational Churches of Connecticut...
...Martin Kruger, director of Munich's National Galleries. Krüger is persona non grata with the Bavarian government; on a trumped-up charge of perjury he is arrested and convicted. As his friends work for his release he becomes for them the symbol of justice; to the government his unjust imprisonment is an instance of good administration. But for each side Krüger is only a pawn in a very big game...
...Colorado River Compact which apportions water among the seven States is "grossly inequitable, unjust and unfair" to Arizona which never ratified it. Its effect would be to leave 2,000,000 Arizona acres "forever unirrigated, uncultivated, uninhabited, unused...