Word: favor
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...pretty goal from the floor. Towards the end of the half; however, Dingle secured the ball from a scrimmage and threw an easy goal, but this was soon offset by a goal from the floor by Brooks. The half ended with the score 7 to 4 in Harvard's favor...
...middle of this period Currie shot the University team's only goal from the floor on a difficult shot from the corner. Cuthell by very fast work made two baskets from the floor in this half, and when time was called the score was 9 to 5 in favor of Columbia...
This play, which was first acted in 1611, was written mainly as a satire, holding up to ridicule the ranting, heroic plays so much in favor at the time, and the ignorant London burgesses who applauded them. Naturally, its butts condemned it on its first representation, but it was afterwards revived and became a common stage property during the seventeenth century. Later judgment has held it to be one of the most original of the Elizabethan comedies, both in its wit and biting satire upon the time, and its fantastic plot and humorous drawing of character...
...short time after the opening of the game, Wallace scored a goal from a foul, but Ijams turned the score in Yale's favor by making a goal from the floor. By fast playing, White succeeded in throwing two goals from the floor in quick succession and Wallace added two points on fouls. Ijams at this point scored for Yale. White and Hoffstot made two baskets, and after Ijams had scored again for Yale, time was called with the score 11 to 6 in favor of the Harvard team. The Freshmen started the second half with a rush, Sheehan scoring...
...another month that benignant presence will have been gone from us for twenty-five years--a quarter of a century in which there have been many shifts and fluctuations in current taste in literature, and in which the competition of authors seeking popular favor has been keener than ever before. Many have had their little day of sunshine; few have outlived a single short summer; but all this while there has been no change in the hold of Longfellow on the hearts of men, and today bears witness to the truth of Lowell's prophecy that the next age should...