Word: favorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bingham has stated that the new gymnasium now under construction will be fully equipped with a ring and all modern conveniences for boxing enthusiasts who must now be accommodated in the cramped quarters of Hemenway. He further stated that he was heartily in favor of putting the sport on a firm basis, and that the only thing necessary to carry this out was a vote of the Student Council. The interest in boxing which these facts indicate would justify some definite action on the part of the Council. With minor sports becoming more and, more popular, the addition of boxing...
Muscle Shoals. "Such parts of these plants as would be useful and revenues from the remainders should be dedicated for all time to the farmers of the U. S . I do not favor the operation by the government of either power or manufacturing business, except as an unavoidable byproduct. ... [I am led] to suggest that Congress create a special commission . . . with authority to complete some sort of contract...
...that form of national elephantiasis . . . designated . . . jumboism? . . . It may be maintained that for the special student it is actually an advantage to make . . . comparisons . . . under one roof. . . . There is really very little in the plea. The specialist is . . . the last man to make comparisons. . . . You are doing him no favor to bring tha art of the world into unnatural . . . juxtaposition . . . you are doing the simple art-lover a great disservice...
Nothing which anyone could say in favor of enforcing the prohibitory law could possibly please the fanatical wets. Reasonable people, wets and drys alike, must approve some parts of President Hoover's message which refer to that subject. Wets cannot honestly deny his first statement, namely that the first duty of the President under his oath of office is to secure the enforcement of the laws, nor his second, namely that the enforcement of the laws enacted to give effect to the eighteenth amendment is far from satisfactory. Beyond that there may be honest differences of opinion between wets...
...announcement that Governor Ritchie will speak in Boston during the week has evidently relegated Orthodoxy to a minor position in favor of the more pertinent question of Prohibition. For the good of the people, perhaps, the pernicious influence of the English scholar has been allowed to seep in to keep their attention occupied while the Law and Order brigade amuses itself by presenting a cold shoulder to the Maryland...