Word: favor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Workers party is not to be confused with the Socialist party, whose candidate is fair-haired Norman Thomas, Princeton graduate, one-time minister. The Socialist platform is virtually identical with the Communist platform except for the revolutionary plank. Because Socialists do not favor overthrowing the existing government, Communists lump Socialists with Democrats and Republicans as "tools of Capital...
Among the recent novels of Harvard alumni that have been finding favor with readers are "Ambition", by Arthur Train '96. "The House of Sun-Goes-Down", by Bernard De Voto '20, and "The Virgin Queene", by Hartford Powel...
...generally fitted to use that language in his further college work. Some of the men who held this general opinion advocated the raising of the reading knowledge requirement to a higher standard as well as the retention of the present elementary requirement. A some-what larger number were in favor of dropping one language from the requirements and concentrating attention on the other. Many of these looked back with little pleasure on an elementary French or German course in their Freshman year from which they believed themselves to have derived little profit...
...stepped through the ropes of a ring at the Polo Grounds, Manhattan, and smiled genially at Lightweight Champion Samuel Mandell. A great shout went up. As is usual in Manhattan, the shout was for the wearer of the harp. Champion Mandell had been too long in retirement to win favor. He came out of his corner to win it now. On the cherubic face of Harp-wearer McLarnin he dropped jabs that soon closed an eye, caused bumps to rise and blood to trickle. Nervy to the last gong, Harp-wearer McLarnin chased Champion Mandell, who beat him backing...
Captain B. H. Whitbeck '29, staged a comeback in his encounter with Pitman of Yale, when a stubbornly contested three set match ended with a score of 5-7, 6-4, 7-5 in favor of the Crimson leader. Pitman stormed through the first set, using his fast flat first serve with great effect on the hard surface. Whitbeck, recovering in a fast second set, won it 6-4 and went into the third with terrific strokes which wilted Pitman's three-game lead and took...