Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...press conference next day he delivered what he called an economic dissertation to explain why he was in favor of tapering off PWA activities...
When, after five hours, the Senate recessed for an unhappy weekend, an amazing total of 54 Senators had taken part in the afternoon's debate. Still adamant was Senator Byrnes, having refused to withdraw his amendment in favor of a separate resolution when he heard that Senators Guffey and Neely were planning to amend such a resolution with condemnation of another species of mass lawbreaking: lynching. And of all those who had raised their voices in defense of sit-downers, not one had championed the Sit-Down as admirable or lawful...
...three major sportsmen who now alone speak for the College in the Committee for the Regulation of Athletic Sports are symbols of a past era in Harvard Athletics. At every opportunity Mr. Bingham reiterates his intention to discourage big-time sports in favor of intramurals, and to catch up to Yale's record of 55 per cent of the students on house teams. When this hope becomes a reality, it will be clearly necessary to give average students a vote in the supreme court. It may prove an important help to the evolution of the Student Council's recommendations...
...second body seeks to discover whether undue discrimination is being wielded against Juniors and Seniors applying for House admittance in favor of Sophomores...
Increasing spectator interest, undergraduate participation, gate receipts newspaper publicity, improved team play, and entry into the Eastern Intercollegiate League have been among the factors making for continued agitation in favor of the proposition. In all these respects the court game now ranks well up beside the present five majors, football, hockey, baseball, crew and track...