Word: favorableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...worth. Meadows and Saltonstall, the ends, have done exceedingly well in the early contests, but neither has played in a contest of major importance. Putnam and French are brilliant Sophomores whose big test comes today. Whoever replaces Daley at guard, whether it be Simonds, Goodwin, or Stewart--the chances favor Simonds--will be in his first big game. Gamache, like Dooley, played two years ago, but unlike the Indian star, did not emerge from their contest covered with glory. Captain Coady was not in the starting lineup a year...
There will, of course, be many who think this another opportunity to prepare for a future on "The New Yorker" or "Vanity Fair". It is not quite that. The University as faced with a different situation. The CRIMSON, as has been said, is strongly in favor of remedying that situation. And this competition is the first constructive item toward some progress in the matter...
...mean by soul? . . . The Brain immortal? No, the brain is a piece of meat-mechanism . . . wonderful meat-mechanism,' But the November issue of The Forum will contain another interview with me in which, now aged 79, I say that even evidence that science now possesses tends to favor belief in Immortality; that there is nothing necessarily shocking to practical intelligence about Immortality. By Immortality I mean what the spiritualists mean, persistence of the undefined 'Soul' after physical death. A little illogicality, I cite the 4,000-year-old Californian sequoia trees as suggestive of a possible afterlife...
...John Gardner Murray has taken a firm stand against 99 11-100 percent Americanism. In an article in the October issue of the American Church Monthly, Bishop Murray writes. "Good is in the ascendant, and the comparative ratio of increase (of population) is decidedly in its favor. We are living in the best age of human history." Is it by accident that the leaders of our public life are such defiant optimists. Or is it one more indication of why we are so popular in Europe? New Republic...
...down, like a flower. . . ." The last story, "The Letter," has a better and grimier plot. A thin, sensitive, charming married woman shoots, kills, a man who, she said, tried to rape her. The court acquits her. Really, she killed him because he had cast her aside in favor of a fat Chinawoman...