Word: favorableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bumping into an extended palm, and my first experience cost a 20-franc note for a one-franc service. They don't know the meaning of the word "change." The insipid Harry Pilcer was the leading (?) attraction, and I must say that he did the United States a great favor when he departed Parisward. Paris isn't wild about Americans, but we will go there...
There was no doubt how the Senate felt about it. They voted 73 to 2 in favor. This is the third time they have passed such a resolution. They passed it in the previous Congress (the 68th) and in the one before that (the 67th). But not yet has it been passed by the House...
...Education, shines by light reflected from the halo of universal learning that crowns a democracy. The purely negative argument, that a nation spending about three quarters of its income on past, present, and future wars is able to afford $1,500,000 for education can be strongly urged in favor of the proposal...
Coming out of Committee of the Whole, the Senate voted a second time on several important points. Abolition of the tax on admissions was sustained 40 to 27. The repeal of the estate taxes was upheld^ 40 to 23. The final vote was 58 to 9 in favor of the bill...
...first half of the game failed to show any very decided advantage on the part of either team and ended with a score of 12 to 8 in favor of the Freshmen. After the half the schoolboys opened up a rapid fire offense which carried the ball repeatedly to the Freshman net. The Crimson quintet rallied and hammered the edge of the Springfield basket with long and close shots which failed to score...