Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...great enough to balance the greater plurality for Hughes in the remainder of the state. Conditions were the same in New York. The city returned a winning number of votes for Wilson but the votes from the northern part of the state turned the total vote in Hughes' favor...
...divided in this campaign, but not noncommittal. Harvard has always been inclined to condescend toward national politics, and to view all candidates, as we should say in France, from high to below. The Nomad remembers watching the Harvard classes as they filed past in the great torchlight parade in favor of Blaine in 1884. There was a tendency in the banners to lampoon all three of the candidates for the Presidency--Blaine, Cleveland and Butler; and this tendency was greatly emphasized when the class of '88 came along with a three-sided transparency--on one side of which...
Laurie scored Exeter's first touchdown in the first period and it was then that Jordan failed to kick the goal which gave the Freshmen their ultimate advantage. The last quarter opened with the score 21 to 6 in favor of 1920, but Exeter swept the Freshmen off their feet scoring twice in the ten minutes of the period. The last of these scores was made by Jordan who caught a punt and ran 50 yards through a broken field...
...Technology freshmen proved their athletic supremacy over the sophomores at the annual field day celebration on Technology Field yesterday afternoon. With a 20-0 score in their favor in the football game and a clean-cut victory in the relay race the first year men won for their class its numerals on the cup in the Technology Union as well as the privilege of smoking class pipes. Only in the tug-of-war did the sophomores show strength enough to overcome the enthusiasm of the freshmen. In that event the second year men succeeded in pulling their opponents over...
...they have been definitely and rightly settled." Mr. Paine says that Mr. Wilson has definitely repudiated the hyphenates--but, of course, he has not heard of the appeals made by the President's representatives at a Third avenue beer-garden. Secondly he cites as points in Mr. Wilson's favor the Army Bill, which disappointed and disgusted Secretary Garrison, and the Naval Bill "which," he says, "has done more for the navy than decades of previous Republican legislation." Increase of the navy, by the way, is something that no Republican (or Democratic) administration would have considered right in times...