Word: favor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...from the quarry waste thrown into the sea. The quarries exhibit the phenomena of jointing, and the peculiar accidents of "rift," "lift" and "cut-off," terms used by the quarrymen to indicate available lines of weakness in the stone, which they may use in extracting blocks. If the conditions favor, traces of submerged forests may be found. The excursion is recommended as one of the best which can be made within the limits of a day from Boston...
...shot guns to the field was the most elaborate for many years. The two classes were so unruly about the diamond, frequently in erupting the playing, that the game had to be called at the end of the fifth inning with the score of 4 to 3 in favor of the freshmen...
...that they produce some definite plan and tell what they considered to be a permanent court. Then he went on to show that permanent courts are impracticable, and that the affirmative was trying to do what statesmen have not been able to do in centuries. The negative, he said, favor arbitration of some kind but it is in the shape of a permanent system such as is prepared by Lord Salisbury. The charge advocated is radical and uncertain, as all plans for a permanent court have been deemed impracticable and impossible. What is the excuse for a permanent court...
...have shown that a court with such a jurisdiction and such a composition as I have outlined is a perfectly safe extension of the principle of arbitration. The gentlemen are in favor of the principle of arbitration. They must therefore be in favor of such a permanent court of arbitration unless they can point out specific dangers in the idea of a permanent court, in its jurisdiction or in its composition. Otherwise they stand convicted of refusing to accept the logical result of their own position...
Dartmouth scored one in the fifth through R. Stevenson's error leaving the score 5 to 3 in Harvard's favor. Two safe hits and Haughton's loose fielding gave Dartmouth another run in the sixth...