Word: favorableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sips hot water with his frugal meals, while Chang Tso-lin banquets among his dancing girls. From the cold north of Manchuria and Peking comes the barbaric Mogul to drive back if he can the Cadet who has conquered half China-and last week Great Britain seemed to favor the Cadet...
White Elephant. From the tar north city of Chiengmai glad news sped that there had been born that rare marvel, a true white elephant, all pinkly pristine and signifying that the gods view with favor the ascension of pert brown-eyed King Pracha Tipok (TIME, March...
...Governess went back to Wyoming. The nation's last glimpse of her as an official was probably to be this kindly errand for the potent tribe of Gimbel. She retires in January in favor of Frank E. Emerson, who defeated her by some 1,000 votes...
...antipodes more easily than nearby places. 1905 was also notable for me as the year of my company's suit against the DeForest Wireless Telegraph Co. (Inventor Lee De Forest of the U. S., subsequently of 'phonofilm' fame). In pro nouncing his decision in my favor, Judge William K. Townsend of the U. S. Circuit Court was at pains to dispel all doubt as to whether or not I was actually the founder of wireless telegraphy. In a magnificently flowery peroration, quite appropriately Latin in feeling, His Honor pictured me as a fearless forerunner, embarking courageously upon...
...When the plan to limit training periods was first produced. I was in favor of it. But I have since seen that the practice of the plan is inferior to the theory, and that the increase in injuries and other evils attendant upon its continuance argue its abandonment. The integrity of the present training system defeats the very purpose of training...