Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aside from political interests, which he believed should be eliminated as far as possible, by an independent, trained, and permanent Civil Service, Hopf declared himself strongly in favor of the ill-fated Reorganization Bill which was killed by the last session of Congress...
...regular meeting last night, the Council voted in favor of Bock's plan, and the committee to select the books will be appointed in a short time...
First thing Rube did was to ask the Sun for hints on editorial policy. He was given a list of orthodox Republican likes and dislikes, touched up with a heavily jocular postcript: "Dear Rube: We also in theory favor truth and beauty and oppose rape and cannibalism...
...Then it was recalled that the Japanese physicist, Yukawa, had postulated the existence of just such a thing to help explain energy exchanges in the atomic nucleus. In honor of Yukawa, there is a tendency in Europe to call the particles yukons. The name barytron ("heavy particle") is gaining favor in the U. S. At the American Physical Society's convention in Chicago last week, barytrons were a popular subject of discussion...
...Opera, No. 2 in the U. S., chalked up the fourth week of its finest season since the plush & ermine days of Samuel Insull. Impresario Paul Longone, who was almost thrown out three years ago, had also taken a cue from the stockmarket and climbed slowly & steadily back into favor...