Word: favoredly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...teeth of the State Department denial that under the new relief plan food would be distributed on the basis of political favor, LaGuardia snorted that the plan would work "like Tammany used to in New York." If LaGuardia was right, the U.S. might make a lot more enemies by withholding food than it had ever made friends by giving...
...will provided that the Institute should sponsor lectures "on the Historical and Internal Evidence in Favor of Christianity," the "Arts and Sciences," "the Literature and Eloquence of Our Language," and such other subjects as "the wants and taste of the age demand." Lecturers were required to believe "in the divine revelation of the Old and New Testaments," listeners to "be neatly dressed and of orderly behaviour." (Both requirements long since canceled.) A Lowell, if there was a "competent" one, would always be trustee. (The Institute's present trustee: Boston Banker Ralph Lowell.) If inflation ever spiraled too high...
...policy of the University toward Harvard students working in the same jobs. The unhandy hours and limitations upon extra-curricular activity that these jobs impose make them trying enough, but college men employed as student waiters also find that in most wage matters the University discriminates against them in favor of the high school students with whom they work. Specifically, the high school students receive the regular hourly rate and free meals: Harvard men are paid slightly better wages--or were before the new contract was signed--but each week are billed $11.50 for board...
Meeting in Emerson Hall, 150 members of the chapter argued the motion for half an hour, following its presentation by the Veterans Affairs Committee which was evenly split on this phase of policy. The final vote was heavily in favor of the plan, which at this time would call for a general raise in veterans' allowances...
...election itself will be by proportional representation. Voters will mark their ballots to indicate the order of their preference of the candidates. When the tabulation has given a candidate enough first place votes for election or to clearly eliminate him, further ballots in his favor will be thrown to the voter's second choice and, when the occasion demands, third and fourth down the line...