Word: disfavoring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...imagine that present proposals for the abolition of the submarine have any chance of success." "The 10,000-ton Washington treaty type of cruiser will prove of very doubtful value for future naval operations. . . . New type vessels are under construction which tend to throw the treaty cruisers into disfavor and minimize their chances of employment ten years hence...
Eastern boxing arbiters regard with disfavor the roughness of towheaded middle-weight contender Ace Hudkins. They regard with suspicion the astuteness of Jack Kearns, manager of Middle-weight Champion Mickey Walker. Before Hudkins and Walker got in a ring together one cool starry night in Los Angeles last week, rumors went about that Kearns had a contract in his pocket to manage Hudkins. These rumors kept betting down, but proved unfounded as soon as Walker's first rights and lefts thudded home. Before long Hudkins' coarse face, misshapen by the beatings he is accustomed to take even when...
...Army, onetime High Commissioner in Syria; in Paris, three days after the death of his superior officer, Marshal Ferdinand Foch (see p. 26). At the first Battle of the Marne, General Sarrail recaptured Verdun and the Meuse heights. A radical-socialist, his military career was much affected by political disfavor. In Syria (1925), dynamic as ever, he suddenly shelled rebellious sections of Damascus, reputedly killing 500 persons, including women and children, arousing worldwide protest. At his deathbed was famed Lieutenant Colonel Albert Dreyfus, victimized hero of "the Dreyfus case...
...quite different state of mind if its representatives had known what was going on from moment to moment. Further, there are reasons for believing that the undergraduate papers do not reflect undergraduate sentiment as a whole. Even the social clubs, which at first were inclined to look with disfavor on the house plan because they feared it might lead to their extinction, have changed their views. We have no doubt that discussion and the spreading of information will remove even the slight opposition which now exists in any quarter. --Harvard Alumni Bulletin...
...treat date". After citing the cases of several collegiate dances, to which all the guests had been pledged to attend as "stags", and which had invariably turned out to be dismal failures, the editors of the Emerald proceed to declare their opposition to the idea. In thus recording their disfavor of the "dutch treat date" they were probably expressing the opinion of the majority of present day college students...