Word: disfavorable
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What interested advertising men was not so much the process but the way in which the first advertisement indirectly advertised General McRoberts' bank, especially that important quality "up-to-date usefulness." General McRoberts is the outstanding alumnus of Baker University in Baldwin City, Kan., where smoking is in disfavor...
...dozen able divinity students of assorted Protestant denominations, summer-schooling at Chicago, last week came to an astounding conclusion: that Christ is growing increasingly unpopular in the U. S., not simply the sufferer of public apathy but the subject of downright disfavor...
...chief probation officer of the State General Sessions Court, Edwin J. Cooley, had been suspended from office and indicted for favoritism and misappropriation of funds and resigned in disfavor, although later whitewashed by a grand jury...
...Navy Departments had not found these considerations a drawback to the Martin-Russia deal. The White House denied having any hand in the matter or expressing any opinion thereon. But Mr. Stimson was impressed by the situation in the Orient and his alone was the decision to "view with disfavor" the Martin-Russia deal. New and puzzling, however, was the reason he gave: that the U. S. cannot permit sales of war munitions to a foreign power which the U. S. does not recognize...
...mental healer," from whom (they profess) Mrs. Eddy got her ideas. Reason for these shifts of reverence and name was given by John Valentine Dittemore, onetime director of the Christian Science Church, deputy leader of the Church of Universal Design*: "The term Christian Science has been brought into widespread disfavor through the recent discovery of Mrs. Eddy's extensive plagiarisms, her secret use of drugs while instructing her followers to discard them and the claim that the discoveries in metaphysical healing of P. P. Quimby were her own." Contributing causes of the "widespread disfavor" were two recent books: Herbert...