Word: favours
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...batting order: Harvard. Amherst. Loughlin, c.f. s.s., Biram. Kendall, 1b. 3b., Thompson. Reid, c. c.f., Couch. Fincke, 2b. l.f., Tinker. G. C. Clark, 3b. r.f., Harris. George, s.s. 2b., Kent. Wendell, r.f. c., Priddy. Devens, l.f. 1b., Favour Stillman, p. p., Harroun...
...Favour, who is now in Europe will occupy the Reed Professorship of Physics at Williams next year. It is announced that the Miller Professorship of American History and Literature has also been filled...
Burdett, Le Favour...
...claimed that they offend no oftener than do their English cousins. Good, or what are called good, English writers say "different than," for which there appears no authority in either etymology or syntax. They persist in the use of "whilst" as firmly as they do in their spelling of "favour," labour," "honour" and "cheque." Whatever modifications in English orthography have been the result of a desire to expunge useless letters. The Englishman replies that in these cases we destroy all trace of the origin of the word. But "favor," "labor" and "honor" are pure Latin, and the insertion...
...Give favour to me, to whom favour is sweet...