Word: unjustness
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...would be 100 millions at 6%. Mr. Borah, chairman of the foreign relations committee of the U. S. Senate, recalled that the last U. S. offer to adjust the French debt was to accept fifty cents on the dollar and 1¼% interest. This offer France refused as oppressive, unjust. Said Mr. Borah: "The disparity between the two propositions seems worthy of consideration. Is the American taxpayer being swindled or is the French taxpayer being exploited...
...have just read in TIME, July 25, B. M. Manly's criticism of President Coolidge. The criticism from any standpoint is unfair, unjust and partisan. The writer excels in a few outdoor and manly arts, but would no more undertake to ride a "bucking bronco" than he would to choke a bear by poking his fist down his throat. The writer would, however, undertake to try conclusions with any ordinary amateur boxer or wrestler, would gamble on his ability as a fisherman, and if actually necessary take a hand in a free-for-all fight. He would not, however...
...silly letter in the June 13 number of Time signed CYRIL D. H. G. DILLINGTON-DOWSE. I am an Englishman of 25 years' residence in London and 20 in the United States, and I know well the insular type of Britisher who writes this strangely inept and grossly unjust attack upon TIME. He is evidently of the kind that nurses a blind prejudice against everything American. I encountered a number of such people during a recent two months' sojourn in London. Logical argument, ratiocination or even statement of proven fact, count for nothing with this type of self...
...will never surrender!" he cried. "To accede would be to abdicate the liberty of the pen. In submitting to unjust punishment I would consecrate iniquity. Not until I have received formal official assurances from the Government of the Republic will I leave this office...
...Significance. It is not unjust to imply that for Mrs. Wharton's characters the most dangerous weapon of destruction would be a paper cutter. They are fragile figures which resemble" those outlined in fashion magazines for the socially ambitious to cut out. The narrative, as usual in Mrs. Wharton's books, is pursued with neo-Jamesian traps and snares, rather than less subtle hounds and horn. Her methods have not kept pace with her times, her subject matter, her ambition as social observer. Narration by implication, which seemed wise and successful in The House of Mirth, has, after...