Word: favors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sense, he was born in the right place and with the right ancestry to favor a big role. Though Africa was, until the Europeans came, the continent that could not write, it had known its times of glory. Guinea was once part of the powerful Mali Empire that stretched from the French Sudan, on the upper reaches of the Niger, to just short of West Africa's Atlantic Coast. When its 14th century ruler, the Mansa (Sultan) Musa, made his pilgrimage to Mecca, he traveled with a caravan of 60,000 men, and among his camels were 80 that...
Joel Landau will double in the hurdles and sprint races, and winning performances from him in both events could turn the meet in the Crimson's favor. Landau is a strong favorite in the hurdles, but in the dash he must face Yale's Steve Snyder, who ran 60 yards in an incredible 6.2 sec. last week...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13--President Eisenhower pictured the American public today as beginning to realize that they are in a contest with selfish interests who favor federal spending in their behalf...
...plans take into account the possibility that the City may decide to widen Boylston Street on its west side. If Boylston were widened, it is understood that the University would favor depressing the street below ground level so that a ramp could be built across...
...terms of historical analysis, the Department fails, the non-concentrator in its accomodations of the concentrator. Its policy of subdividing periods appears calculated to drives off the non-concentrators; these extremely limited courses are dry and historically incomplete because of a seemingly willful exclusion of major works in favor of secondary material, very often of little interest of merit. Elizabethan literature is now taught in three different courses: porse poetry, and drama; the Eighteenth Century receives as many, while such courses as "English Literature from 1603 to the Restoration, exclusive of Drama" can attract only the most esoteric of concentrators...