Word: disfavored
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...consequent feeling of depression was evident in the closing hours. The Democrats .strove to shift the burden of disfavor upon the Republican Congress. The Republican members were eager to lay any failure to obstruction by Democrats and insurgents. Both were anxious to put blame on the Administration, which retained an unaccountable popularity, playing a cautious, silent game at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue...
...attention of the signatories. In view of the fact that a serious international situation was believed to be developing behind the curtain of secrecy dropped in the shape of a censorship, the U. S. Government warned the President of Honduras through the U. S. Minister that it "regards with disfavor any attempt of a Government to perpetuate itself in power except by accepted constitutional processes...
...reactionary and negative influence on his college. He has roused the antagonism of prominent members of his faculty, as their recent formal protest showed; the Commencement Exercises revealed the antipathy of the students; and his unfortunate act of stopping the Scott Nearing talk a year ago roused the disfavor of fair-minded people throughout the country. Yet there are no indications that his term is to be ended...
...tenor of the new Socialist Workers' Internationale is anti-Bolshevik and antiFascist. It looks with disfavor upon the national movement in Germany; it censors the militarist and imperialist proclivities of the French; it denounces the "selfish diplomatic policy " of Britain...
...Twilight sleep," popular name for the use of scopalamine as an anaesthetic during childbirth-a method which fell into disfavor after it was found to have a detrimental effect on babies thus born-is still used regularly in a modified form in the Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, and some other hospitals. Dr. John 0. Polak has used it as a routine procedure in labor, with a resulting infant mortality for 1,000 cases of but 2.5 per cent, about one-fifth of the average for other deliveries. It should, of course, be administered only in hospitals and under specially...