Word: favored
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HAMP. Based on a novel by J. L. Hodson, John Wilson's play is a critical examination of a court-martial and its decision in favor of discipline rather than compassion. Robert Salvio is Private Hamp, a World War I infantryman condemned to death after his fear and instincts caused him to flee the bloodshed of the front...
...only two-fifths of the state's senators, though it had four-fifths of the population, a reapportioned senate (giving Oahu 19 of 25 seats) helped enact 20 consumer-protection bills and a traffic-safety measure. Throughout the Deep South, Daylight Saving Time is no longer rejected in favor of "God's time." Even in Tennessee, where it used to be a misdemeanor punishable by a $500 fine and ten days in jail to display a clock with Daylight Time, clocks have been set ahead an hour...
Harvard officials testified yesterday in favor of a bill that would allow new graduates to vote immediately in the election of the Board of Overseers. Sergant Kennedy '28, Secretary of the Board of Overseers, presented the bill at a hearing of the State Committee on Education...
...With their air of enthusiastic self-righteousness, Opus Dei members often irritate both laity and clergy-particularly since in many areas they accomplish more than the church. With their insistence that secular life should be Christianized rather than Christianity secularized, they raise inevitable suspicions in some quarters that they favor a practical union of church and state...
...walking away from the circle of slightly sweated faces. "Come on, come on, your two dollars to my ten, and I'll spot you four balls. Hey?" The answer here and elsewhere in the North End is, no, thanks, because you are a bigger man. You can get a favor done, you don't need his double sawbuck. May-be he needs your two? No, he doesn't need your two, forget...