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Word: favorable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lady Astor rose last week before a conference of 3,000 women Conservatives, to speak in favor of a Government-sponsored bill abolishing criminal floggings. She found to her surprise that not only were the majority of the women for flogging, but positively rude about it. Throughout her remarks they chorused "No!" "Oh!" "Shame!" Lady Astor, no mean heckler herself, asked for silence first applause afterward. The chairwoman asked for traditional British fair play. "What about assaults on women and children?" screamed the female Conservatives. The Astor comeback was not up to standard: "The more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Mixed | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Eighteen stickmen will take the trail for New Haven tomorrow morning as the Varsity lacrosse team faces yale in the last and one of the toughest games of the season. The cards are slightly stacked in favor of the Blues, but Skip Stahley's combine may well turn the tables on their opponents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LACROSSE TEAM FACES STRONG YALE COMBINE | 5/19/1939 | See Source »

...protest, raised by a group who claimed that the dance on Friday afternoon before the Jubilee would make for too many continuous hours of dancing in one day, was finally settled in favor of the Friday proposal. The P.B.B. Committee in charge of the tea dance claimed that a Freshman baseball game with Yale besides other minor complications interfered with the original Saturday schedule...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEVERAL CHANGES MADE IN PLANS FOR JUBILEE WEEKEND | 5/17/1939 | See Source »

Yale is definitely the boat to beat, and on the dead water of Princeton's lake, the Crimson will have a hard pull but indications are in its favor, while Princeton does not present much of a threat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity 150's Favorites to Win Over Tiger, Yale Crews | 5/12/1939 | See Source »

...student lines have practically been abandoned in favor of the new brand of telephone picketing, and according to company workers the only men walking the lines now are long shoreman hired especially for the purpose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pickets Adopt Unique Tactics in Taxi Strike; Use Phone to Urge Cab Boycott | 5/11/1939 | See Source »

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