Word: favoredly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...system won favor with the administration of the University and with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for three reasons. First, it makes possible long-range budgeting by the departments and the Faculty. Second, after it has had time to take effect, it protects a department from having suddenly to replace a large portion of its permanent staff in one year or in two or three years because of bunching of retirements or deaths. And finally, it gives a man who wants a permanent appointment to any department an exact date on which to expect a vacancy to occur...
...skating facilities available to all students in the University, their guests, and probably Radcliffe. But because of existing rules for student organizations, any "Skating Club" formed would have to be strictly Harvard students, and 50 percent undergraduates. Eighty-one percent of the ballots counted said the voter "Would favor Radcliffe membership in the skating club...
...much in favor of freedom of speech as anybody, but there is something to the clear and present danger concept. Someday somebody's going to pull a muscle trying to get out of Emerson. The windows of Emerson are too high to afford another entrance, and the University has not seen fit to open the other half of the doors. It's up to the student in the street to solve this problem...
...Favor Morning Admittance...
...State Department does not look with favor on this means of getting in touch with people on the other side of the barrier," he declared. "They have the idea that it will be construed as an invasion of sovereignty by the Russian government. Through some queer quirk of diplomatic reasoning, it is no invasion to shoot our words across on electromagnetic waves in the other, but it is not quite cricket to send printed material across. That's a little too unconventional. In some way it is rather raw. It is not in accordance with the niceties of diplomatic practice...