Word: favor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demonstrators Sunday told the ad hoc committee to "stop trying to perform a mediating function . . . and take a political position" in favor of the demands including the general amnesty...
Kirk also said tonight that he would yield to a request to discuss the Morningside Park gymnasium issue with the mayor. The mayor is said to favor an alternate site for the gym, which was scheduled to be built on a site leased to Columbia in 1961 for only $3000 a year. Construction has already been halted temporarily at the mayor's request...
...Health Department made 2,721 referrals altogether and visited 2,644 homes at least once. Cambridge Visiting Nurses reaches about 200 parental cases a year from Cambridge City Hospital and is referred prenatal cases from Boston Lying In's Clinic. The executive director made a strong statement in favor of a forthright approach to birth control. Even in cases not specifically prenatal (about 800), the visiting nurse will initiate discussion on contraceptive if appropriate. She mentioned the obstacle posed by some Catholic doctors who refuse to prescribe effective methods. She was the first of my many interviewees to concern herself...
Most scientists agree with Drake's reasoning, and a slight majority now appears to favor the theory of extraordinary, vibrating white dwarf stars as the probable source of the signals from space. Said Jodrell Bank Astronomer Smith at the close of the Royal Astronomical Society meeting: "It looks as if the little green men are now white dwarfs...
Kahn, in fact, admits to a built-in bias in favor of Harvard. "I liked my 25th reunion, and I go to football games and yell my head off." Although he does not publicly discuss controversial questions about this University, it seems that he is in general agreement with the way Harvard administrators run the place. "I've found enough," he says, "to justify my original premise that Harvard was and still is a fine educational institution...