Word: favoredly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well-upholstered Cerberus who can purr contentedly or breathe fire at will. She (usually it is a she) is the Parisian concierge. Parisians call her La Pipelette, after Mme. Pipelet, a garrulous character in a popular French novel (The Mysteries of Paris). Paris knows her well, courts her favor, dreads and cherishes her power and protection. Last week, La Pipelette's very existence was threatened, and with it a bittersweet slice of Parisian life...
...time Perón's election and inauguration were over, Don Alberto had become a permanent house guest in the presidential residence. The Perón government threw almost all its shipping contracts to him, lent him money to buy more ships, granted him many another fat favor. It went all-out on a long-ignored demand for indemnity on a Dodero ship that had been sunk by the Nazis in 1940. In addition to the 2,000,000 pesos that Dodero had asked, it gave him 15 million pesos more to cover what he would have made with...
Died. Prince Louis Honoré Charles Antoine II, 78, since 1922 ruler of pocket-sized Monaco (370 acres), whose chief sources of income are postage stamps and Monte Carlo's gambling casino (the 24,000 Monegasques pay no income taxes); four days after he abdicated in favor of his grandson, 25-year-old Prince Rainier; in Monaco...
Almost all crews now employ this technique with minor variations. Even Yale, which for the past two years has been rowing at fantastic beats, sometimes going as high as 45, has now changed its strategy in favor of the lower stroke...
...arguments in favor of a Geography department at Harvard have been explained before. In addition to fact that many Federal and international organizations call for trained geographers to help straighten out their problems, the field was one of the first divisions of the University to adopt the principles of general education, even before the GE program was born. Geography, as its friends claim, may still be the best vehicle for teaching the social sciences...