Word: favored
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...There are serious practical difficulties in the way of Annexation. - (a) Increase in the civil service. - (b) Opposition of Great Britain; Fort. Review LV, 120; No. Amer. Rev. vol. 152, p. 473. - (c) Canadians do not favor it; Spectator, vol. 64, 163; Mag. Amer. Hist...
...Gould '93 and T. Ewing L. S. The cold wind and the early darkness interfered somewhat and kept away many spectators. The first set was long and hotly contested, Gould and Ewing showing themselves very evenly matched. At one time the score was 5 to 3 in Gould's favor, and a little later it was 6 to 5 in Ewing's favor. The latter finally...
...approved by the city of Cambridge, and then, as was said before, the Electric Light Company protested, and called for a second hearing. The hearing was granted, and both parties were represented by counsels. The decision was a very close one, the vote standing 5 to 4 in favor of the Electric Light Company. As the possibility of having all the buildings lighted by one central plant is thus for the present destroyed, and as it would require six separate plants to do all the lighting without running wires across the streets, the matter is still unsettled...
...went to Orcutt with 15 for Hoppin. Hoppin won the next four games, the first game lone, and the other three with 15.30 and 15 points for Orcutt. The next game went to Orcutt with 15 for Hoppin. Here the games stood 4 to 2 in Hoppin's favor. Orcutt braced up, and only lost the game after deuce had been called twice; but on the last game he weakened and Hoppin won the game love. This gave Hoppin the set 6-2. Hoppin has a clean record, not having lost a set during the whole tournament...
...question of a good standard of coinage Mr. Story said that wings of both parties had sinned. The Democrats by compromising against the force bill in favor of free silver; the Republicans by passing the present infamous bill when they had majorities in both houses and a Republican president...