Word: favorableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Budgets, local and national, have come into economic favor in the years since the war. In particular, the Student Council budget for undergraduate activities has justified itself in the most practical way possible, oversubscription. In place of a multiplicity of drives featuring perspiring collectors and an indifferent collection, the single drive disposes of the problem for the year...
...prudent dieting would succeed. He was given his own palace and a staff of medical experts who devoted their entire time to his care. At eight years of age he had grown strong enough to attend the Japanese School of Peers, where the faculty were enjoined not to favor him. Though he proved a good student and acquired a fluent knowledge of classical Chinese, English, French and German, his health constantly caused anxiety. None the less he underwent training in the Japanese Army and Navy, "rising through the ranks" to a Lieutenant Generalship and a Vice Admiralship...
...Arnold Bennett, who did not go to college, is in favor of a college education for authors. Robert Hichens wrote me: 'I nearly went to Oxford, and my two brothers were there. I wonder if I ought to regret not having gone...
...would indeed deem it a favor should you inform me the mailing address of Dr. Voronoff, as I would very much like to ask him a question in reference to the above...
Some have maintained that federal control over the country's oil supply is necessary. The board took a stand against any federal interference save for expanded research. It declared itself in favor of state control unless national defense is threatened by waste, state inaction, or oil exhaustion...