Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Included in the questionnaire issued by Virginia Vonne, Secretary, are such queries as, "Do you like a girl tall, short, of medium?"; "Do you prefer a good dancer, good talker, good listener, hearty eater?"; "Do you favor heavy or light make...
...sport addicts now agree with the Virginia hillbillies, and some experts, notably Gene Sarazen, go so far as to say he is the greatest golfer ever developed in the U. S. Making his bigtime debut in the winter circuit last year, 24-year-old Samuel Jackson Snead captured the favor of golf galleries by his tremendous power and precise timing, his natural swing, his titanic stretch finishes. He began to draw galleries reminiscent of the Hagen, Jones and Sarazen eras. By the time the No. i U. S. tournament of the year, the National Open, came around in June...
Dated May 17, 1768 and sent by way of Virginia's Acting Governor John Blair, Washington's letter sought from Gage a favor for some Virginian friends trading with Fort Pitt at the top of the Ohio Valley. They wanted Gage to promise not to make a boundary shift that would throw a block of Indian territory across their route between Fort Cumberland and Fort Pitt and give the market to the Pennsylvanians, who were trading over a more northern route. His request, said Washington, "can give no offense to the Indians, nor any one else, unless there...
Just seven years after asking this favor, Washington was leading the Continental Army against Gage at Boston...
Liberal and labor groups will also consider plans for introducing in the State Congress measures to raise the compulsory school age to 16 years, gain the right of women to serve on juries. They have declared themselves against biennial sessions of the Legislature and in favor of the Civil Rights Bill...