Word: favor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...distinction" from the results throughout the country. If Mr. 'Lazarus had followed with even the most cursory eye the results of other straw ballots held in colleges and by journals throughout the country, he would have been not so ready to state universally that all results had been in favor of Wilson. Results have varied with the section of the country, pretty much as those who are somewhat wiser than your correspondent of yesterday realize they must vary when the final test comes. No all-embracing Wilson victory may be postulated, no, not even by Mr. Lazarus...
...matter of Hughes vs. Wilson, the following facts are conspicuous: (1) the overwhelming majority in our straw vote for Hughes is in strange distinction from the figures obtained in similar tests elsewhere resulting in victory for Wilson or in practical draws or in very slight favor of Hughes; (2) the expressions of admiration for Hughes here are pronouncedly militaristic and pro-Ally, whereas it is the pro-German throughout the country who are preparing to "strafe" Wilson for his independent Americanism; and (3) the phrases most frequently uttered by Harvard Hughes boomers have to do with every subject on earth...
...long gains, but the ball was lost on a fumble and from that time on the playing was almost entirely in 1920's territory. Andover advanced the ball to the Freshmen's 20-yard line and a goal from the field by Crane broke the tie in Andover's favor...
...policies and personalities of the respective candidates. It is the very essence of democratic government that absolute freedom of expression should be given to the opinions of every member of the community; yet it is often a matter of considerable doubt whether some of the arguments advanced in favor of this or that candidate are really expressions of opinion in its true sense. Do the condemnations of one Presidential nominee, or the eulogisms which we hear heaped (or heap ourselves) on his rival, arise in all instances from a mature judgment of both sides of the case...
Pageantry, as a form of popular education and edification, has steadily risen in favor with educators, civic reformers, artists, and the populace of the United States during the last decade and a half. Yale University, this autumn, is to produce, on a larger scale than any of her rivals have yet attempted, what will very likely prove to be the most imposing academic pageant to date; and this, be it noted, by a conservative institution, only recently awakened to aesthetics' rightful place. Even more significant of the change that has come is the ecclesiastical pageant soon to be shown...