Word: favorableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them than most of them realize. Several years ago Mr. Banks played against Robert Stewart (in Scotland) for the championship of the world: Mr. Stewart won by two wins to one-with 47 drawn games. . . . I realize . . . that your mail will not be likely to bring you a very favorable reaction to the proposition. The ability of Mr. Banks, as our foremost match player, as a player and analyst of international fame and as an editor has long been established. Chess is more widely played than checkers. I believe. It is more complex and outwardly spectacular...
Total letters received in favor of a checker column: 21. Total letters received opposed to checker column: 102. There will be no checker column...
...American foreign policy which Scripps-Howard has pursued, every informed person knows that it has fallen from the high estate which is our common heritage, and becoming no longer worthy of regard, is destined to defeat and failure. No American can profit by selling his own country for foreign favor...
...Plympton Street regulars were opposed in this contest by a team composed of editors who favor a War Memorial Chapel. After being in hot water for three innings, F. V. Field '27, on the slab for the first string outfit, hit his stride and began to breeze them over in a way which completely mystified the opposing batters. In the fifth Worcester beat out a bunt, Jones singled, and Smith walked. Magowan then smashed out a sizzling drive which rose higher and higher as it went, finally disappearing altogether...
...petition, officially sponsored and actively directed, is another matter. There is a greater possibility that the plan may be fulfilled. But if this is a failure and the required amount of signers is not reached, there can be but one conclusion--the students at present do not favor the proposition. Statistics are a worthy barometer and in this case they are either the be-all or the end-all, at least temporarily, of a university run dining hall...