Word: favor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...admitted that the transaction arouses suspicion, but further than this the Court does not feel justified in going toward a finding in favor of plaintiff, in view of the principles of law announced...
...After all," he concluded, "I shall not introduce an amendment to the bill in favor of fleas. I cannot bring myself to permit a flea to provoke a serious constitutional quarrel between the two Houses...
Apparently, this is only an academic defeat; for not only are many republicans in favor of the old flag (chiefly to end interminable discussion of the flag question), but most Germans use it. It was considered certain that the old flag will sooner or later replace the republican emblem...
...protection. Many Chinese recognize all this; the great majority in "conscious China" are stolidly indifferent; but the active, educated Chinese, particularly of the student class, has been able to compare the Occidental to his own, older civilization and to find the scales of judgment weighing in China's favor. Consequently, this class has been able to stir the masses out of their traditional inertia and to fan the smoldering fires of latent indignation into a fiery movement that does not lack analogy to the Boxer uprising of 1900. Bolshevik influences, including money, are no doubt a contributing cause...
...favor of freshman regulations as they exist, no, 164; yes, 150. More strict, 256; less strict...