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Word: favors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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From London it was falsely announced that King Amanullah had been forced to abdicate in favor of 14-year-old Crown Prince Rahmatullah. From Moscow, Soviet President A. T. Kalinin despatched a "gift" of Red combat planes to aid Afghanistan's hard-pressed monarch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Shrewd Rebels, Smart Mother | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...to.be the universal proprietors of the vast territories acquired by conquest in the new world. * * * It was an opinion, perhaps as ancient as trie crusades, that the pope, as the head of the church on earth, had competent authority to dispose of all countries inhabited by heathen nations, in favor of Christian potentates * * * This high power being accorded to the pope * * * titles acquired upon the supposition that it was rightful cannot now be disturbed * * *." Mayor of Mobile vs. Eslava (Ala. 1839) 9 Porter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 31, 1928 | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...founder of Britannia [sip], I said what I thought, without fear or favor. Evidently I am against lots of people [sip], for I believe in everything British! That was what Britannia stood for while I held her helm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Agin, Agin, Agin | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...other hand, the Committee has thrown over a concrete measurement of scholastic ability in favor of an intangible criterion more flexible in its application, and has further made a broad statement which touches they very theory of education in the abstract...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DAMAGING ADMISSIONS | 12/20/1928 | See Source »

...first half, the tally stood 21 to 15 in Harvard's favor, but the outcome of the game at that time was by no means certain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD QUINTET WINS FIRST TILT | 12/20/1928 | See Source »

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