Word: favorableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Elimination of Pests in favor of Big Things led citizens to review the record of President Hoover's first five months...
Stoutly opposed was the great, bass-voiced Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise of Manhattan. While he is inclined to favor all-Jewish union, he regards the present Zionist leadership as weak, inadequate. Also opposed was the revisionist group, which is dissatisfied with the powerful conduct of the Zionist cause...
Last week the proposition was put to vote. It passed by the whelming count of 230 to 30, with 50 not voting through abstention or absence. Many of Dr. Weizmann's anticipated opponents-orthodox Zionists, Laborite Zionists, radical Zionists-submerged their separate complaints to favor the central issue...
...Covell and Mrs. Dorothy Shepherd-Barron, runners-up at Wimbledon, continued the visitors' lessons in doubles play for Little Helen's benefit. The latter's partner, Mrs. Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman. 25 times a champion, needed no such instruction, but the final score was 6?2, 6?1 in favor of England...
That the ratio of human v. mechanical endurance was enormously enlarged in favor of mechanical, to the credit of the Curtiss-Challenger motor...