Word: favor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second etching portrays a more personal scene in 1798. At a birthday party in honor of Fox, the Duke of Norfolk proposed such vehement toasts in favor of Parliamentary reform that he was dismissed by the Crown. This, too, Gillray has touched with insight and humor...
...Wesleyan the audience voted in favor of the home team, which supported the affirmative of "Resolved, That this house deplores the large part that advertising plays in modern civilization." Wesleyan effectively opposed Harvard's claims that advertising is beneficial as an innovating influence, raises the standard of living, and is economically necessary. Representing the Crimson were D. I. Cooke '31 and S. G. Silverman...
Harvard would be perhaps the least favorable environment for such an attempt. Where a student body is unanimous in its approvals and disapproval's, a newspaper constantly opposing it deserves no consideration as a representative of undergraduate ideas; but in the fifty-one forty-nine division characteristic of the University, the CRIMSON's policies, though never claiming to present student opinion, necessarily find some proportion of favor. Whenever the opposition to its statements, inevitably great under such conditions, grows to the stage of pen and paper, the columns have been ready to admit criticism to the loss of editorial space...
...limit. Such an action offers the British government excellent grounds for protest and leaves this country without a valid excuse. The enthusiasm of the coast guard in executing their duties might be satisfactory to the W. C. T. U., but their breach of international etiquette certainly will not find favor in diplomatic circles...
...into Virginia President Hoover sent his secretary, Lawrence Richey, in search of trout streams for presidential fishing this summer. The President does not favor Mount Weather in the Blue Ridge, selected by Calvin Coolidge, as a week-end retreat (TIME, Feb. 25). He said it is hot and offers nothing much but scenery...