Word: favor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coach Cowles that this may bring about a number of radical changes in the game. With the lively ball formerly in use, a smashing back court game was generally accepted as the most successful style of play, Now it is possible, however, that the opposite style will gain favor, with drop shots and corner shots in the front court proving most effective...
...purposes to hold France and Britain to the promise recently given by their representatives at Geneva: namely that an International Finance Commission shall be set up with all appropriate speed, to readjust the whole structure of Reparations Payments (TIME. Sept. 24). However, Chancellor Churchill has long been known to favor at least temporary retention of the Reparations status quo. Therefore it was not surprising that Host Churchill kept Guest Gilbert out in the open a great deal-displaying to him the Churchill estate, rather than settling down before the hearth to wrestle with millions, billions...
...read at one peep and quickly "corrected." Concealing pencil-lead under one's finger nails to void ballots by extra marks. Dropping ballots behiA-3 the box instead of through the slot. "The more handling a ballot gets, the surer it is to turn up in favor of the other candidate. . . . And . . . you gotta make sure the ballot boxes are empty before the voting starts. Sometimes we'd put in a few votes just to get things going right...
...might buxom Aimee McPherson have quailed as she faced 2,000 tepid Britons, over 8,000 empty seats, the two Deacons and "Bishop" Mrs. White. No sooner did the Evangelist mount her pulpit than Bishop White stood up in her box and loudly shouted: "Couldn't Mrs. McPherson favor us with an explanation of her kidnapping incident on the Pacific Coast?" Quick-witted, the leader of Mrs. Mc Pherson's choir struck up a hymn, drowning out Bishop White. But the Bishop closely watched her chances and shouted disconcerting questions in such fashion that two more hymns...
Prohibition was also the aperitif at the Boston clinical congress of the American College of Surgeons last week. Franklin N. Martin of Chicago, president of the College, interrupted his formal inaugural talk to say: "More than two-thirds of our people morally and spiritually favor the 18th Amendment to the Constitution. In spite of the injudicious administration, which has resulted in an orgy of lawbreaking, of self-indulgence and ridicule on the part of the other one-third of our citizens, the foundation has been laid for a demonstration of race betterment and extension of life that will astonish...