Word: prefer
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According to The Oxford English Dictionary, "calms" and "cames" have the same meaning. Since U. S. glassmakers prefer "cames," TIME herewith adopts...
...foreign affairs. He surprised the Nonintervention Committee by declaring that Germany demanded it act in unanimity-that is, fail to act if Russia continued to balk- and Italian Ambassador Grandi backed up Herr von Ribbentrop. This week the committee was to meet further, but Germany and Italy appeared to prefer that it remain deadlocked, so long as this can be blamed on Russia, while the Spanish Rightists launch against the Spanish Leftists the last major offensives possible before winter sets in (see below...
...scarlet fever, erysipelas, and cerebrospinal meningitis-is sulfanilamide. Noting a great demand for sulfanilamide, 61-year-old Dr. Samuel Evans Massengill, who compounds veterinary medicines in a good-sized factory at Bristol, Tenn., this summer decided to add that drug to his line. Knowing that his Southern customers prefer their medicines in bottles,* he sought something in which to dissolve sulfanilamide, which had hitherto been taken in tablets and intravenous injections only. He decided to use diethylene glycol, a close relative of the alcohol used to keep motorcar radiators from freezing, never before put to this purpose. Whether diethylene glycol...
...Englanders prefer pills...
This does not mean, of course, that everybody will pass. In every class there are a certain percentage of gentlemen who prefer to loaf, or let other people do their work for them. With men of this breed the College will, and should make short shrift. Also there will be a few who are incapable of making the grade at college, no matter how hard they try. These, also, will feel the first tickling of the knife about their necks at the current "Hours." But the rest should find no particular difficulty with the tests...