Word: disfavor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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National guardsmen are here at small stipends to the neglect of their business concerns. Policeman are staying on their jobs, in the face of disfavor of friends and associates, and the risk that, should the deserting corps by any chance be restored they would be subjects of petty persecution, just as the conservatives were in the station houses before the strike began. These loyal policemen have played an heroic part. They deserve well of the community. Boston Herald...
...Ireland are at present the heated problems of the day. To condemn Lloyd George's ministry because of misinforming the English public in some detail regarding the military situation is folly. In view of what has passed, the necessity of now maintaining stable government must overshadow any minor disfavor of its policy...
When intensely centralized athletics have been abandoned for athletics which open the field to everyone, may we not think that after the war the return to the old form may meet with some disfavor? If the present state of things is more beneficial in war, it is probable this would also be true in peace...
...trying to "force their views on the majority." All revolutions and all reforms must be started by a minority. The indifference of many people and the active opposition of others towards all proposed reforms must be taken as a matter of course. All reforms are at first regarded with disfavor by the majority. Finally, I would say that the "Revolutionists," in common with the upholders of the present system, desire fellowship and sociability at the meetings, but we believe that the serving of beer is an artificial and unnecessary way in which to secure conditions of congeniality. L. BRENTANO...
...recent increase in the popularity of association football and the growing disfavor with which American football is regarded all over this country, has necessitated at last that soccer should be given a serious try-out at Harvard. Those, who know it, can testify that it is the equal of any out-door game...