Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Elis escaped an upset by the narrowest of margins, an upset that would have definitely established its like as the usual of the season and not the unusual. The final score of Yale 68 1-2, Harvard 66 1-2 was not in Yale's favor until the final event, the broad jump, in which the Blues gained first and second places to forge pass the Crimson in the scoring for the first and deciding time...
...Washington last week the Interstate Commerce Commission heard with apparent favor Chesapeake & Ohio Railway's plan to acquire direct control of the Erie and Nickel Plate to tighten two loose strands in the old Van Sweringen network. C. & O.'s past connections with another strand, Chicago & Eastern Illinois, meanwhile came under the pained scrutiny of Montana's Senator Wheeler and his committee investigating railroad finance. The evidence provided the Senator with his best illustration to date of how the late exceptional Brothers "Van" dummied their way through deal after deal to get what they wanted in spite...
...born babe appeared in the middle of Mt. Auburn street. Ere long they began taking if down on the swamp across the river, where they rolled it in the mud and pulled its hair and fed it grape juice and then called the score 23-2 in their favor...
...same time, Winthrop and Dunster engaged in a free-hitting brawl, ending in favor of the Puritans, 11-6. They found the twirling of George W. Blackwood '37 to their liking, knocking out 11 hits in the first four innings...
Additional nominees will be placed on the ballots when petitions in their favor are signed by 25 of their classmates and taken to 29 Claverly Hall before noon Friday...