Word: favorable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...only remains to keep up the good work until the 30th, when they will enter upon the decisive struggle with the chances largely in their favor...
...Nine played Trinity, Saturday, June 29. Score 29 to 4 in our favor. Tyng made two home runs...
...Whether this growth is due to the exhalations of a neighboring stream, or to the proximity of a battle field where, they are wont to assert, a battle was once fought, is still a matter of some doubt. A thoroughly impartial examiner might say that indications were slightly in favor of the latter hypothesis, judging from the undue pride they exhibit over certain perforations in the side of a house, said to have been made by bullets in the above-mentioned battle...
WERE it commonly known that sitting on college fences is what is technically called a "Yale trick," there is no doubt the recently developed fence-roosting mania would cease to find favor in the sight of all respectable undergraduates...
...applications for membership shall be voted upon at the annual meeting of the Association, where, if a two-thirds majority of the Colleges represented vote in favor thereof, such College or Colleges applying, shall be admitted to, and entitled to representation in the Association...