Word: favor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cornell University is the Wilder collection of preserved brains. From their evidence, Dr. James W. Papez, curator, last week concluded scientifically that all physical qualities, such as mass, formation, wrinkles, surface area, prove the female organ equal to the male. Chief among the exhibits in favor of women was the organ of Mrs. Helen Hamilton Gardener, ardent feminist but reasonable debater. Live, she had sought to prove such equality in a book, Sex in Brain. Dead (in 1925), she had willed her brain as mute, tangible evidence to clinch the argument. In the Wilder collection last week, no brain...
...that score was changed to read Ford, 1,810,000; Chevrolet, 1,234,850. This year in the first six months, it reads G. M. C., 586,444; Ford, 332,384. Before the end of the year the score will stand still higher in G. M. C. favor...
...words." Up likewise jumped William Mitchell, stormy onetime assistant chief of the U. S. Army Air Service. Given the platform, he shouted; "The next war will be fought by getting at the vital centres of the enemy. This must be done by aviation. Today we are being strangled. I favor ending the situation. I favor the creation of a department under a separate Cabinet officer at once...
...rapped for order. Ann Harding, as Mary Dugan, accused of murdering her paramour, was ushered into court. The trial was on. The dull courtroom walls fairly trembled as attorney for the defense and district attorney tore out confessions of shame, innocence, guilt. Gradually the weight of evidence shifts in favor of the defense and when the final curtain falls, the audience, appealed to through the three acts as a Jury, not only knows what verdict to render but also understands what made Mary Dugan take to a life of shame. Act divisions are brought about by court adjournments. Rex Cherryman...
...favor, darling, from the world or from the gods...