Word: favours
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...January to compel the University Road Real Estate Trust to honor a 1956 option agreement to sell the building, located at 122 Mt. Auburn St. Earlier this week, Middlesex Superior Court Judge Edward F. Hennessy told the lawyers for both parties that he would shortly issue a ruling in favour of Harvard...
Twenty-five years later however, he was less tolerant of such ardor and was deeply concerned by a young Braintree lawyer's attachment to his 17-year-old daughter Abigail. "I ask not Fortune nor Favour," Adams wrote his wife from France, "but Prudence, Talents and Labor. She may go with Consent where ever she can find enough of these...
...Houses voted more than 2-1 in favour of the referendum with a total tally of 987-441, but the freshmen narrowed the margin with a 291-336 vote against the plan. The Yardlings were credited with the defeat of a similar proposal in January when they cast a lopsided 90-431 vote against the HCUA split...
...pious little lads get into the big money by "a gigantic inheritance, left to his hero by some previously unknown relative, or a gift from a multimillionaire who felt the virtuous boy to be worthy of a reward. Thrift and diligence were adequate instruments for winning the favour of rich relatives or bosses or millionaires' daughters, but not for achieving wealth singlehanded...
...letters who can talk shop, for example, without putting up the shutters of boredom or obscurity. What does a good poet do? He captures the sound of his own voice talking, says Graves, a natural voice and "not the one in which we try to curry favour with children at a party, or with an election crowd, or with a traffic cop.'' To show what happens when a poet merely apes passing fashions. Graves does a parody of a Japanese haiku called "The Loving Parents...