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Word: favorable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...make the statement that "seven jurors favored setting the will aside. Five opposed." This is not true. The first ballot was nine to three in favor of setting the will aside, and it was never less than this majority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...expropriating (with pay) the large estates in favor of the peasants, by creating a parliament in which every labor, professional and religious group is represented, and by openly defying the bloody plans of Hitler and Stalin, Rumania gained certain prestige in the minds of thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...Levy stood mute, being ready, willing and anxious to accept the judicial favor of one he hoped, believed and expected would soon be his own and that of his clients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Disbarred | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Baltic Grabs Favor Allies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: American Interests Jeopardized it U. S. Intervenes in Europe's War, McKay Warns | 11/24/1939 | See Source »

This is a story of propaganda, and of how the three powers in the Commonwealth, the President, the Governor, and "The University", all tried to curry popular favor, and how "The University", of course, outsmarted the others...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/23/1939 | See Source »

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