Word: favor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...other objects we are heartily in favor of, yet we do not see precisely what the press club is to do to promote them. It is possible that a monthly meeting might tend to bind the editors together, but we are very skeptical as to the tangibility of this union...
...early Buddhists transmigration was accepted without criticism. They endeavored to awaken the unconverted to the perception of the impermanence of all things. The question as to whether this doctrine of impermanence applied to the self was scarcely considered by the Buddhists. They strove to discourage ontological speculation in favor of practical morality. They believed in "transmigration of character," until all self - regarding aim is extinguished, and the craving which produced new beings was rooted out, and there was no further rebirth. The Buddhist taught that the eradication of all evil desires and the purification of the soul...
PRINCETON, N. J., Oct. 24. - The second football game between Lehigh and Princeton was played here today. The game was a one-sided contest and resulted 32 to O in favor of Princeton...
...third meeting last evening, the question being, "Resolved, that the American people is degenerating." The principal disputants were: H. Bancroft, R. Dutton and C. J. Liebmann for the affirmative, and B. R. Robinson, J. F. Wood, and W. H. Rand for the negative. The debate was decided in favor of the negative. C. Grilk and C. E. Bower acted as judges. The meeting was very well attended and there were many disputes from the floor...
...before he could recover himself. Both men were tired in the last set and played with extreme care, neither running up to the net much. Wrenn got the first two games and Read the third. From that point the score went to 3-2 in Wrenn's favor and then to 5-2. Here Read made a splendid brace and twice kept Wrenn from winning the decisive point of the match. With the score at 5-4, the last game went to Wrenn only after several deuces...