Word: unjustness
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...unequal as they are in the United States", often with widely different standards, the records could hardly be compared; while no satisfactory means has yet been devised for forming snap judgments of a boy's character, far less of comparing characters. And "personal interviews wherever possible" would be as unjust to those applicants who found it possible as to those who found it impossible. However interesting and significant the results of such investigation may be, they cannot be more than supplementary. An absolute standard is the only one which can prove fair and consistent with itself. The only absolute standard...
...just a mediocre boxer, Siki will continue to get matches because of his eccentricities. The more sedate colored boxers naturally are indignant over this, and there are probably about a dozen of them who can best Siki in any kind of a bout. It is a bit unjust, if one comes to think it over, but the crowds will go to see Siki whenever he fights simply because his habits are decidedly irregular and eccentric...
...when the National Committee met last week, opposition to carrying out the plan of reducing the South's delegations at once developed. Senator Pepper of Pennsylvania proposed an alternative, on the ground that it was unjust to deprive Southern districts of any direct representation in the Convention. Senator Howell of Nebraska and Senator Bursum of New Mexico made a stand against annulment of the reform-to no avail. Without a roll call the South was restored its full delegate strength-and a little bit more- and to offset the latter other States were also given increased representation...
...permitted any make-up or postponement and has given a zero grade on the uncompromising theory that the student should have been present. In the case of men excused by the office for reasons other than that of necessity, this point of view is not unreasonable; but it seems unjust to penalize a man who has been absent because of conditions over which he has no control...
...entire civilized world. He is Mahatma Gandhi of India. He is a man who has tried and is still trying an experiment in the field of politics; the sanctifying of politics by the inception of moral and spiritual laws. Mr. Gandhi says that all that is immoral, unholy, and unjust in the life of an individual is equally so if it is found in the life of a nation. Governments should be judged with the same strict standards of morality that we all wish to apply in judging the conduct of an individual. The moral code in the public life...