Word: favorableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...while it was all very well for the Duke of Wellington to say that Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, it is more important now to win the Davis Cup or the Wimbledon championship. Another factor is the deserting of the students themselves from cricket in favor of tennis. Eton will start off with eight hard courts as an experiment...
...Hoover. Candidate Hoover answered the Borah questionnaire on Prohibition by calling the latter "a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose" which he does not favor repealing and which, "of course," he stands for enforcing vigorously, sincerely. "It must be worked out constructively," said Candidate Hoover, leaving public information about where it was. Clarence Darrow, cynic lawyer, tried to illuminate by announcing, in Cincinnati: "I don't think Hoover is any drier than I am. I ought to know. I have had a drink with...
Colorado's I. W. W. coal strike, current since October, ended last week. Wobbly Tom Connors, strike chief, announced that a statewide ballot (the second one cast within a month) was 88% in favor of returning to work. Another Wobbly leader gave the reason: "The slack season is upon us. It is foolish to strike when the bosses can meet the demand for coal by keeping a few scabs at work...
Between the extremes of evangelical Christianity and the Roman Catholic Church there slants an almost unbroken line: the emphasis placed upon alcoholic temperance by the denominations along this line increases in ratio to their distance from the Roman Catholic Church which does not favor Prohibition...
...Whereas on February 14, 1927, the Corporation resolved that they were unanimously and heartily in favor of a beautiful new chapel in the Yard, which shall be a memorial to the Harvard men who gave their lives in the World...