Word: favored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...large majority of the students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences apparently favor Dean Elder's recent proposal that an option be instituted on the length of the doctoral thesis...
...reporters "write for their bosses" and 2) editors and publishers are "the real villains." Many legislators complained, however, that capital reporters are either incompetent or show bias in favor of their newspapers' editorial policies. Complained a Florida lawmaker: "During our special session on reapportionment, one reporter threatened to 'ruin' a legislator with publicity if he did not change his vote...
...possible explanation is that a better poet than Da Ponte might have been less willing to bow to Mozart's stern dictum: "In an opera the poetry must be altogether the obedient daughter of the music." It is the usual fate of the librettist to be forgotten in favor of the composer, but Da Ponte deserves to be remembered-not only because of his skillful service to Mozart, but because of the outrageous and fascinating life...
...acquired enough vision to contribute his mite to an expanding economy. In the meantime many a reader will wish that Author Schlesinger would allow a remarkable and memorable American to be judged on his own great merits and great faults, without loading the historian's dice in his favor...
Captain Bob Gilmor, at 177, the only senior on the Crimson team, gained the decision which clinched the momentous victory. With the score 13 to 8, in favor of the varsity, Gilmor completely out classed Pete Wight, winning the decision...