Word: favored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sixty per cent of the upperclassmen polled last spring favor a reduction in the number of meals they are required to take weekly, according to a report presented to the Student Council at its meeting Monday...
...necessary, gradually integrated. The committee's key point: no city can pretend to attract or hold business, industry or federal installations, e.g., the Norfolk Naval Base, with public schools closed. Next move: to warn the Governor and the legislature "that the great majority of responsible Norfolk citizens strongly favor continuous operation of a free and efficient public-school system under local direction...
...France will once more be great," he told cheering throngs). Already he had the backing of all of the nation's major political parties except the Communists. The Socialists had been the last to fall in line when their party congress voted 2,786 to 1,176 in favor of out. The Roman Catholic Church issued a proclamation advising the faithful that they could vote for the new constitution even though it declared the Fifth Republic to be secular. Only a few voices were still raised against De Gaulle. Though his own Radical Socialists had refused to back...
...turned out to be his last work in Michigan's Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1950, finished five years later in Rome, called it "the most difficult statue I have made." Milles early turned down the suggested subject for the memorial, a figure of the Good Samaritan, in favor of St. Martin of Tours, a 4th century Roman soldier. Something of a Samaritan himself, St. Martin, in the depths of the drastic, winter of 332 A.D. in France, cut his cloak in two with his sword and gave half to a freezing beggar. To give full scope...
Chitranjan Kapur '60 stated that the three Student Council delegates to the 1957 NSA convention returned "very strongly in favor of Harvard's continued participation in the organization." He said that the Council acted "too fast," and urged that it take more time to "talk the problem over...