Word: favorableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They appeal to equality and require either a tariff for themselves or the abolition of duties on manufactures. They favor dumping regardless of the fact that it but transfers the hardships of crop fluctuation to foreign farmers. But despite the carelessness and heterogeneity of the agitation, several factors are obvious: crop fluctuation brings social distress; agrarian society is rigid and comparatively helpless; if any portion of the country requires sane governmental assistance, it is the farming portion...
...Count Bethlen himself referred to the counterfeiters in Parliament as "misguided patriots." Regent Horthy refused to refer to them at all-a most significant gesture on the part of a "ruler" who should nominally have been the first to condemn such acts. The identity of the individual in whose favor the putsch was to have been launched remained obscure. Regent Horthy and Count Bethlen both appear to be badly tarred with the counterfeiters' brush; but the Regent is a Fascist and the Count...
...horsewomen, used as they are to coursing astride, noted with secret mockery British news of last week that "a reaction had started in favor of the sidesaddle and the graceful riding habit of a generation ago, as against the man's saddle and the riding breeches of today." The objections to the man's saddle, besides the supposedly esthetic ones, were based on the quasi-medical grounds that the muscles of a woman's thighs were less strong than the corresponding ones of a man and that therefore a woman was less secure astride a horse-would...
...first hurdle in their race for Big Three honors on Saturday. Yale has already been downed once by the Tigers, and though comparative scores are proverbially unreliable, the strong reserve strength that has enabled the Harvard team to down Princeton, should make the odds slightly in the Crimson's favor, when the series with the Elis starts on February...
...with recent light thrown on the educational facilities at Nancy, broadens the entire field of foreign study. It should eventually result in putting the travelling fellowship on better than a pre-war basis and doing away entirely with that enormous prejudice in the mind of the graduate scholar in favor of the larger English universities...