Word: favorableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...December and the blazon of February have both died. The most that can be expected of the second Reading Period is that it should render to its authors results of equal conclusiveness with those of the first Reading Period. Statistics are not the most strong exidence in its favor. Perhaps the most definite mark of its firm establishment is present in the least definite phenomenon at Harvard--student opinion. Perhaps it was in Cambridge first, as now, that silence in matters of great moment became known as token of assent...
...Party conventions elsewhere during the week strengthened other candidates only sparingly. Oklahoma Republicans urged their 20 delegates to vote first for Curtis, then for Lowden. Nevada Republicans decided not to instruct their nine delegates. Arizona's nine were reported to favor Candidate Lowden, but were not instructed. Alaska Republicans did not instruct their two delegates. The standing of delegates instructed or fairly claimed for all G. O. P. candidates as of last weekend was: Hoover, 359; Lowden, 211; Curtis, 24; Norris, 11; Borah...
...brokers, became a partner of that firm and at the same time a member of the Exchange (the youngest so distinguished). Seats on the Exchange are currently worth $395,000. Young men who "buy" them at such prices raise the money by bonding themselves and insuring their lives in favor of their creditors, and give private noi.es for the sum. Since a pronouncement by the Exchange management last week, under certain conditions they can also mortgage their membership. To pay back the purchase money takes the member 15 to 20 years...
Speaking of training, Paddock says the secret of physical fitness consists in leading a normal life of regular habits. He is not in favor of intense training...
...team which started for Harvard played well as long as it remained in the game, but in the fourth inning, M. A. Cheek '26, coach of the Class teams, substituted an entire new outfit and the play commenced to favor the visitors. A large part of the Roxbury score came in the late innings as a result of the wildness of the class team hurlers. With three men on base, they seemed unable to preserve any control over the ball and in this way allowed several unearned runs to trickle across the plate...