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Word: favors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the committee got around to voting on whether to okay Nominee Luce, the tally was 16 to 1 in favor. Wayne Morse's was the only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Compromised Mission | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

ATLANTA CONSTITUTION: That Mrs. Luce should have allowed her anger to renew the row after it had been settled in her favor is difficult to understand.We happen to be one of Mrs. Luce's admirers. She did a fine job as American Ambassador to Italy. She is one of the nation's most able women. But we think she was wise to resign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judgments & Prophecies: THE LESSON SEEMS PLAIN | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...Crimson Rugby Club will try to salvage a disappointing season tomorrow when it journeys to New Haven to face a weak Bulldog fifteen, and for once this spring everything seems to be in favor of the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strong Rugby Club to Play Yale; Squad at Full Strength for Game | 5/8/1959 | See Source »

Millie Perkins, a newcomer, lacks the necessary depth for the title role. Despite her poetic prettiness and exaggerated emaciation, she looks like an Ivory Soap ad instead of a tortured adolescent. The other actors do considerbly better; Shelley Winters, as Mrs. Van Daam, dispenses with glamour in favor of convincing frumpishness, while Ed Wynn, as Mr. Dussel, adds a fine touch of ridiculous humanity...

Author: By Alice P. Albright, | Title: The Diary of Anne Frank | 5/6/1959 | See Source »

...nation gain the competitive edge on foreign competition? Only a small number of U.S. businessmen really favor a return to Hawley-Smoot protectionism. (But many are bitterly resentful of continued foreign economic aid, which they regard as expenditure of hard-earned U.S. tax dollars to build up tough foreign competition for taxpaying U.S. businesses.) What businessmen can do, say U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce Henry Kearns and fellow officials, is cut the lead time on research and development, pull off the shelf better products originally planned for future exploitation, sharpen up their selling tactics. What U.S. labor must do, says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN COMPETITION: Homemade Challenge in World Markets | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

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