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Word: favor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Goulds wanted a new road they would have to build one over the mountains. The plan cost money-so much that the Gould roads collapsed and passed into the control of the Equitable Trust Co. Alvin W. Krech, chairman of the Western Pacific Board under the Equitable, resigned in favor of T. M. Schumacher, an associate of Mr. James...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: James | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

...Blaustein's gall deserves recognition, and we favor a mimeographed supplement to contain his neighborhood news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 14, 1926 | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

...University polo team suffered defeat at the hands of the Myopia team on the Myopia Polo Field, at Hamilton. The seventh chukker ended with the score 11 to 7 in favor of the home team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON HORSEMEN FALL BEFORE MYOPIA RIDERS | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

...Crimson batters were unable to hit Quill in the pinches as the 13 Harvard men left on base will testify. He showed signs of weakening in the ninth, however, and was removed in favor of Danzell, ace boxman for the Bruins. In the first game of the Harvard-Brown series, Danzell showed himself weak in fielding bunts, and it was by this method that the home club eked out a win the tenth stanza...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHOESTRING WIN OVER BROWN EKED OUT BY CRIMSON | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

...spite of this overwhelming setback, one cannot but have faith in the smoke-wreathed banners of nicotine. Even now, if some chic, Parisian expert were to devise a feminine form of pipe to replace the grandmotherly corncob, one might safely wager that it would find universal favor with the gentler sex. And a charming smoking jacket should clinch the victory. If pioneer wives were willing to smoke corncobs an the chimney, surely their descend-ants can not be averse to a more civilized form of fumigation. Since the cigarette unsupported is achieving womanly progress, one can expect an artistic pipe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FEMININE FUMES | 6/12/1926 | See Source »

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