Word: favoredly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British had a point, because several delegations were giving a beautiful imitation of Alphonse & Gaston-holding out their own bids & asks until they saw the other fellow's schedules. But, most awkwardly, the opening snarl reminded everybody of the ubiquitous bilateralism that Geneva was supposed to suppress-in favor of freer multilateral trade in a world atmosphere of multilateral confidence...
...doubled its circulation last year, cleared almost $500,000. Editor Bull wanted to plow the money back, give raises to some underpaid staffers and boost his authors' payments. He also asked an end to the stepchild treatment that withheld paper and press time from Town & Country in favor of other Hearst magazines. Instead, his bosses threatened to give Town & Country a mixed-salad section of architecture, interior and exterior (cosmetics) decorating. Now they are free to do it, and Harry Bull is free to write a book about a town-&-countryman's New York...
...monument and proponents of a "living memorial" that will further war aims, with holders of every position proffering excellent reasons why his suggestion is the fittest and the most practical. But the University, in the midst of a slow alumni drive to endow the Lamont Library, may look with favor on a simple dedication that can be realized within a very few years...
Whatever the size of the majority of public opinion in its favor (and no conclusive proof of great popular support has been forthcoming), the passage of this amendment will be of serious significance to the country and its future. Indeed, no matter what the proposed amendment may be, any major revision in the nation's constitution deserves consideration of the most exhaustive kind. Instead, this one is being rushed through state legislatures, predominantly Republican, as it was steamrollered through Congress, in a hush-hush and how-dare-you-oppose-this manner. Besides, the playdown given hearings and discussions...
...years." But there were some signs of progress. At Makuwari, farmers and fishermen (who returned the local bosses to power) noticed at least one change. "Once officials were stiff-necked and paid no attention to ordinary people," they said. "Now they come to us and ask us as a favor to vote for them." Commented a U.S. official: "Isn't that the beginning? How else does an awareness of self-government occur, if not in the phenomena of the candidate coming, hat in hand, to ask for votes? People, even Japs and Germans, like the idea of picking their...