Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...starting positions for tomorrow's clash are as good as definite now, although Harlow said yesterday that he will now know about Foley or Harding at tailback or Boston or Wilson at blocking back until game time. In spite of this, the odds are heavily in favor of Harding and Wilson answering the whistle...
...there in order to make such a life as Martin's possible. Nine-tenths of modern swing has not the creative urge behind it, yet it is the one-tenth which Miss Baker has singled out as the only genuinely important part, and she had done a great favor in telling the world that there is this one kind of jazz worth thinking about...
These circumstances were somewhat misleading. With Prime Minister Chamberlain dramatically seeking peace from Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden (see p. 75), tension was less that evening than it had been for several days. Mr. Hull met the President's train mostly as a favor to the press. Otherwise reporters would have had to wait through a wet evening before filing accounts of the President's conference with his top diplomat. Similarly, the President's press conference was really canceled because he needed time to read reports. And Secretary Woodring had gone to the station for no reason more...
...long standing in Italy hold places in or close to the Regime and seem to be such loyal Fascists, that intimates of Il Duce have figured from the first that his anti-Semitism was chiefly a bluffing gesture to impress the Führer and to curry a little favor from Islam to keep the British worried in Palestine...
Many CBS sales executives are no longer in favor of any summer holidays for any sponsors. But President William Samuel Paley was once a sponsor himself, became interested in radio when he used it to boost sales of the La Palina cigars his father manufactured. In 1928 he bought himself CBS, built up its station membership until he now controls some 1,600 air hours a day. He sells a goodly slice of these 1,600 hours, but has by no means all for sale. Deductions must be made for: 1) Time differences across the continent. 2) Time given...