Word: favored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...misgivings around the nation about the size of his budget. Asked about the steady rise in the cost of living, he seized the occasion to talk about the part played by Government spending. "Now for every purpose that was provided for, in the budget, I still am in favor . . . [but] I do think that we can vary the speed . . ." Then he disclosed that he was making "investigations through the Cabinet and other responsible officers to see whether some of these [projects] can't be slowed up in order to reduce our spending and take that much pressure off this...
Should the Executive Board decide this afternoon in favor of disbanding, it will submit a recommendation to this effect at a meeting of the entire Club membership. Green and Harrison thought it extremely unlikely that the membership would go aaginst such a recommendation...
...favor political failure and social commentary, walk swiftly into the room, quickly close the door, stride across the room and pull down the shade, then clasp the interviewer's hand in yours and say, "Comrade!" The frankest approach and perhaps the easiest way to fail is to smirk as you shake hands and say, "Is this really necessary...
Statistics demonstrate the insignificance of course reduction. It was first aailable in the spring of 1955, when ten students made use of it to eliminate one half course in favor of independent study. In the fall of 1955, 19 students used it, and in the spring of last year, 17. Nine participated last fall, and while 20 are now under the program, there is no sign of any consistent upward trend, or any especially meaningful number using the program...
Another important factor in Yovicsin's selection was his commitment to the standards of the Ivy League. "I am very strongly in favor of the Ivy philosophy on athletics," he said last night. If he were to leave Gettysburg, he continued, he had wanted to go to an Ivy League school...