Word: favor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From London it was falsely announced that King Amanullah had been forced to abdicate in favor of 14-year-old Crown Prince Rahmatullah. From Moscow, Soviet President A. T. Kalinin despatched a "gift" of Red combat planes to aid Afghanistan's hard-pressed monarch...
...to.be the universal proprietors of the vast territories acquired by conquest in the new world. * * * It was an opinion, perhaps as ancient as trie crusades, that the pope, as the head of the church on earth, had competent authority to dispose of all countries inhabited by heathen nations, in favor of Christian potentates * * * This high power being accorded to the pope * * * titles acquired upon the supposition that it was rightful cannot now be disturbed * * *." Mayor of Mobile vs. Eslava (Ala. 1839) 9 Porter...
...founder of Britannia [sip], I said what I thought, without fear or favor. Evidently I am against lots of people [sip], for I believe in everything British! That was what Britannia stood for while I held her helm...
...other hand, the Committee has thrown over a concrete measurement of scholastic ability in favor of an intangible criterion more flexible in its application, and has further made a broad statement which touches they very theory of education in the abstract...
...first half, the tally stood 21 to 15 in Harvard's favor, but the outcome of the game at that time was by no means certain...