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Word: favors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Holy Office published a decree giving Catholics another set of instructions. It is not permissible, said the decree, "for Catholics to give their vote to those parties or candidates which, although not professing principles in contrast to Catholic doctrine, nonetheless . . . unite with Communists and by their action favor Communists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Sword Is Raised | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

...size of the individual school's delegation is getting smaller, at the same time the list of schools sending five or more students (including the bigger prep schools and the better public schools) has undergone a slight shift in favor of the private schools. Thirteen public schools contributed five or more boys to the Class of '58, only nine sent this many to '61. But in the same period, the number of prep schools sending five-man delegations rose from 19 to 25 (with 27 for the class of '60). Although public schools contributed more to '62 than to previous...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: The Changing Character of Harvard College: Applicants Face Stiffer Costs, Competition | 4/24/1959 | See Source »

...nature of Broadway--the blockbuster mystique, you know, it's got to be big and bangy," he detects "a tendency to look for the Great American Play all the time ... I think there's a danger that the more temperate drama might be washed out of sight in favor of a play like Niagara, that indunates you... I think the chief danger is the acceptance of excitement for excitement's sake...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Eyewitness for Posterity | 4/21/1959 | See Source »

...Fidel Castro that the U.S. will see is still an idol to Cuba's masses, but he has lost favor with much of the middle class that financed his way to power, and he has disillusioned many foreign spectators who cheered his rebellion against dictatorship. In his first 100 days he has seemed to savor power more and more while exhibiting the views and comprehensions of a college radical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: The First 100 Days | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

WASHINGTON, April 17--Fidel Castro spoke out strongly today against dictators and in favor of a free press...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Castro Speaks for Free Press Before American News Editors; Tritium Helps in Cancer Studies | 4/18/1959 | See Source »

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