Word: favorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thomas A. Dorgan, clerk of the Suffolk Superior Court and the first speaker in favor of the bill, promptly teed off against Harvard and Harvard men in general. He censured Senator Leverett Saltonstall '14 for minimizing the danger of communist influence in this country in a speech before the Harvard Club of New Jersey...
...Reds vociferously carried the issue into the weekend's cantonal elections. They were rebuffed. The vote showed 61% of the French electorate in favor of the Atlantic pact, 15% (the Socialists) noncommittal, only 24% opposed...
...British Council of the Medical Women's Federation asked 300 doctor-mothers: Is relief of pain in childbirth necessary? The overwhelming response, reported by the British Medical Journal: yes. Of 196 who replied, 184 were in favor of drugs in the delivery room; only eight were definitely against. The women who answered had a combined experience of 425 confinements. Of these, 66% were in hospitals or nursing homes, where it is easier to relieve pain; only 28% were at home.* But 21% to 36% wanted more relief from pain than they...
...author, Dr. Kitty Kate Conrad, 39, mother of two. Said she: "Even when one has seen 300 or more confinements, as I have, the severity of labor pains comes as an intense surprise. They are more excruciating than anything you can possibly imagine. I am certainly in favor of spreading the use of relieving drugs in childbirth as widely as possible." But men are not the only ones who pooh-pooh birth pangs, according to Dr. Conrad. Among the toughest opponents of pain relief in Britain are midwives, who want their patients fully conscious so they can take orders...
Student opinion throughout the college still remained heavily in favor of the defendant and his companions...