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Word: favorable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favor of the affirmative and opposing Harvard were Howard Van Riper and Stanley M. Brown of Dartmouth. Three members of the Boston Bar acted as judges, George Roewer, Fred W. Carrol, and Harry Bergson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEBATERS WIN FIRST MAJOR DECISION 3-0 | 11/30/1937 | See Source »

...Bath in 1759, then the center of fashionable wealth. Soon his studio became thronged; he raised his prices for half-lengths and had Sterne and Richardson, Quin and Garrick sit for him. Within fifteen years he was in London, prosperous, giving away his sketches and landscapes, dividing the court favor with the American West and that of the city with Reynolds. Among others he painted, sometimes with brushes on sticks six feet long, Sheridan, Burke, Johnson, Franklin, Canning, Lady Montagu, Clive, and Blackstone. Like his more than 300 paintings his was a warm personality--lively, generous, natural...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/30/1937 | See Source »

...Originally the orthodox ski technique, Telemark turns (accomplished by sliding one ski far forward so that it guides the other into the turn) are practical only in deep snow, lost favor when the Christiania technique was developed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pure & Parallel | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...Arthur Vidrine, 31, a promising graduate of Tulane University who had done post-graduate work in surgery in London, Oxford and Paris hospitals, as well as in Charity Hospital where Tulane and University of Louisiana medi-cal students all get their preliminary practice. In Dr. Vidrine's particular favor for this important post was the fact that he had learned something of business management from his father, a wealthy Evangeline County planter and an early financial friend of Huey Long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Double Bed Charity | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...telling Cajun, Creole, hillbilly and villager to hurry over to New Orleans and get cured. Charity Hospital's admissions jumped from 1,800 to 3,800 patients a day, causing acute overcrowding. The fact that doctors on the staff intrigued against each other to curry Long's favor or to keep out of the range of his vindictiveness made matters worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Double Bed Charity | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

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