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Word: favorable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Interest will center around the Stubbs' sextet who will be attempting to stretch its victory string, started after a defeat at the Big Green's hands just a year ago, to sixteen straight wins. Betting odds still favor the Crimson pucksters, but the home team is given a better than fighting chance to reverse that decision because of their fine showing at the Boston Garden last months when Captain Ford saved the Harvard cause with two markers in the last period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth Winter Carnival to Be Scene Of Weekend Hockey, Swimming Contests | 2/5/1937 | See Source »

With the results of the vote of more than 40,000 Pacific Coast maritime workers announced yesterday and showing huge majorities in every port in favor of accepting the new wage and hour agreements, the costly, 97 day old shipping strike is at last over. It has been estimated that the strike cost over $7,000,000 a day, in losses to both employers and employees, and the loss to the general public, not only of the Coast cities, but all over the country, is inestimable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PUBLIC BE DAMNED | 2/5/1937 | See Source »

...commission appointed by President Conant to study the feasibility of establishing a Graduate School of Public Administration at Harvard has reported in favor of the experiment. Hence, under the terms of the recent gift of $2,000,000 from Mr. Lucius N. Littauer for the purpose, the university authorities are going ahead with plans for the new school based on the commission's recommendations, and the country is soon to witness a wholly new "educational adventure." We have no doubt it will watch its progress with the keenest of interest and with every hope of its success...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN EDUCATIONAL ADVENTURE | 2/3/1937 | See Source »

...that won him a D. S. C. in France at 45, and a fight with Tammany for his seat on the bench. Last week when defense attorneys in the current restaurant racket trial suggested that he disqualify himself from presiding because he had shown "unconscious or subconscious" prejudice in favor of Prosecutor Dewey, the rubicund justice smilingly consulted his "moral conscience," declined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Fight Against Fear | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

Interpretation of the law, Mr. Cummings says, has to be placed somewhere. He does, however, go hard on members of the judiciary-high and low-who have been inclined to favor unduly business and financial groups. More than that, the Attorney General is concerned with adequate enforcement of the law. Writes he: "The enforcement of laws is always delicate as well as difficult. Particularly in the field of Federal legislation, laws do not find places on the statute books until the social conditions which they are designed to remedy have become fixed. . . . Small groups and large seek to shape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Federal Justice | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

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