Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year the Freshman team didn't win a game and this year they're apparently making a determined bid to repeat. It is rumored that Skip Stahley is not in favor of this idea and is even hoping to change their ideas in this respect...
...constituencies, and in these final balloting takes place next Sunday. Returns from the first poll gave moderate bourgeois Premier Camille Chautemps, whose Radical Socialist Party is ludicrously misnamed, every reason to think that the French people have not swung to either extreme since they last voted in 1936, but favor the Popular Front Cabinet as its policies were recently revised and made less radical (TIME, Oct. 11). So far as could be judged, Socialist candidates were making slight gains at the expense of Communists, Radical Socialists were holding their own, as were the Centre and Right...
...suspicious advertising trade could look in vain through Woman's Day for signs that A. & P. intended to use its magazine for editorial propagandizing in favor of chain stores. The Robinson-Patman Act was designed in part to end the evils of advertising allowances from manufacturer to retailer, and Publisher Hanson has stoutly denied that Woman's Day is an attempt to salvage these lost allowances. However, six manufacturers from whom A. & P. buys goods are represented in the first issue of Woman...
Harvard is tied for third in the favor of Princeton Freshmen as far as outside colleges are concerned. Reports state that in the annual poll of the class Yale ranked tops with 30 votes, Williams had 50, and Dartmouth, Harvard and Vassar scored 30 each...
That any undergraduate whose privilege has expired may ask and generally obtain permission for ten or twenty more entries into Widener's Ark is no solution. No student should have to ask as a favor what should be a right. No arrangement can be satisfactory that does not give those striving for honors unlimited opportunity to gain the fullest benefit from the "finest college library in the world...