Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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THORNTON WOODBURY.LOST. - A black-seal card-case containing a sum of money and personal notes. The finder will confer a favor on the owner by leaving it at Leavitt amp; Peirce...
...countries of Europe which have to support large standing armies. Many of our most prominent military men have declared their approval of Mr. Cleveland's cause in vetoing this measure, and numerous Grand Army posts have voted resolutions to the same effect. These are strong arguments in favor of the justice of the veto...
...following gentlemen spoke from the floor: Affirmative, Messrs. Mahany, Walker, Bruner, Foss, Reisner and McAfee. Negative, Messrs. Daly, Perry, Osborn, Robinson, Surbridge, Hunt, F. W. Hager, and W. C. Greene. The speeches from the floor were received with marked favor, the speech of Mr. Mahany especially arousing great enthusiasm...
...comic business with the Indians rescues the forlorn females. The wretched John Harvard mean while has been searching for said forlorn females, and while he is lamenting, the successful lovers followed by both choruses appear. Suddenly Stubbs enters and resigns the claims he has on the fair heroines in favor of Rev. Milkweed and Cholmondeley, Harvard being thus left out in the cold is baited and generally derided and reviled by the chorus to a tune from Ruddygore, and at last decides to perpetuate his name by founding a university labelled with his name, everything being thus brought...
...this spring for the benefit of the navy, was a great disappointment, not only to the promoters of the plan and the navy management, but also to the whole University, for it was generally believed that the petition would be granted. The sentiment of the students was unanimously in favor of giving the play, and whatever were the objections of the faculty, they must have been very strong to have outweighed the arguments of those who championed the project...