Word: disfavored
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...Capetown, waited quietly in the Rock Hotel for the liner Orford to take him to England. The British Government avoided unnecessary trouble with Italy by announcing that the bearded Lion of Judah would travel to England incognito, would receive no royal honors. For Saturday breakfast Haile Selassie looked with disfavor at a plate of kippered herring, called instead for bacon & eggs, U. S. style...
...have born fruit, we have also found conditions existing which last year's proposals might have remedied. In the cases where we have agreed with the 1938 group concerning the need for reform we have emphasized these agreements. We feel that when conditions lead to the same reaction and disfavor one year after another, the proposals for change in these quarters should be considered most carefully...
...failed to win his old seat. In all, the Minseito won 205 seats and the Seiyukai 174. This meant no more and no less than that, when Japan's militarists reshuffle the Cabinet, a few more portfolios will go to the Minseito, nominally a party which views with disfavor further Japanese conquest in Chinese territory...
...have heard that Harvard is a democratic institution, that it looks with stern disfavor on Fascist ideology. Yet there is little student choice --a Freshman feels that the deities were on his side if he is admitted into a House of his second or third preference, and discovers a small sprinkling of his friends there. The arbitrary limitation of eight friends that may be admitted as a group only increases his sense of frustration and feeling of being a misfit...
...lady and gentleman secretaries from 58 nations followed their French Secretary General into what is to be the $10,000,000 League of Nations Centre. Through gusty, dusty corridors reeking with fresh paint and plaster, the Secretary General & Secretariat threaded their way among Swiss carpenters who eyed them with disfavor...