Word: favoredly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...East Orange High School during the '208, Margaret fought the Scopes trial with her friends (she was on Clarence Darrow's side, in favor of teaching evolution) and secretly read The Sheik. By the time she got to Wellesley, she was writing poetry, soon turned to majoring in economics and talking "in great lofty generalizations and big huge principles ..." She went through Wellesley on scholarship, played basketball on the varsity, and in her senior year was elected head of College Government. "I was serious ... very serious . . . hardly the lighthearted young thing...
Faith & Hope. Nelson Rockefeller, who with his brothers has launched his own private Point Four program in South America (TIME, Jan. 31), testified that he was also wholeheartedly in favor of Point Four. It was the promise of renewed "faith and hope that free peoples can work together . . . We cannot go on indefinitely subsidizing our exports by giving away dollars...
...Bergson smiled self-consciously, Greenewalt ripped into the department: "We have had on our books for many years the Sherman antitrust law. The Du Pont Company is ... heartily in favor of that law . . . Unfortunately . . . the ideology of enforcement is left to the shifting winds of political thought . . . Business frequently finds itself attacked for acts done many years ago in all good faith and with the best legal advice available...
Other changes affecting first year students are the addition of an extra hour of class work per week and the abolition of the mid-year final examination if favor of a year-end final with a comprehensive exam given at mid year. In addition, first year students will have to take a summer "historical" reading program...
Both the experts and the odds favor the Yankees. Although statistics give the Brooklyn club definite offensive superiority the American League champions have such men as Joe DiMaggio, Tommy Henrich, Phill Rizzuto, John Lindell, and Bill Johnson, who have won themselves reputations as clutch players, especially in the last two weeks...