Word: favorableness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...effect of good government in a city is not limited to the confines of that corporation. The example spreads. Just now, there is a wave of enthusiasm in favor of better city government spread through all sections of the country. Our people are desirous of putting an end to what Mr. Bryce described as 'the most conspicuous failure in the United States...
...augurs ill for the permanent value, which it had been hoped this country would obtain from membership in the Court to see the Congressmen who favor such membership putting forth purely negative reasons for it. Nevertheless they but reflect the suspicious attitude of the country-at-large that has rendered all international peace projects abortive since the war. Perhaps disillusionment, the inevitable reaction of the violent enthusiasm the war engendered, has been the cause of this timorous provincialism, for the triumph of the Allied arms was attended with an almost universal wave of longing for a new world order. Only...
...attack tailed to get together at Worcester, although the score was one-sided in favor of the Freshmen. The new floor bewildered the first year men, but this afternoon should witness a turn for the better. O'Connell is now holding down the position of left forward regularly and Burns, who has played center and forward, has been shifted to guard. Burns' physique makes him better fitted for guard, where he played while at Andover. He dispiaces Jaffee, who with Filoon, substitute center, will undoubtedly see action in the game this afternoon...
...therefore, in favor of a method to discuss the disarmament question at this time. Not that I favor complete disarmament, for that question should always be considered from the standpoint from what others are doing and what may be the necessities of the particular nation to which we belong, but this would seem to be a time when the question may properly be thoroughly thrashed out, for I am convinced that another great world war would come very near destroying our present civilized nation...
...treated as is most other legislations in Washington, from a compromise standpoint. The tax hill which has recently passed the House of Representatives, seems to me to be a relatively good one and should be passed in substantially that form. That does not mean that I am in favor of every item in it or that any other man may be, but it is a better law than the one which is now in force...