Word: prefer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have stressed the impossibility of affording each and every student adequate tutoring. Neither time, money nor men can be found in sufficient abundance to make this scheme practicable, and the burden becomes even heavier in view of the fact that many men are not interested in tutorial opportunities and prefer to work alone. Therefore, under the present system the tutorial market is glutted either with drifters, or else hard-working but convinced foes of the regime...
...caring for. Further, due to financial limitations, a great many of the present tutors have no chance of advancement. On the other side, educational arguments for some modification are brought forward on the justification that many men do not derive any benefit from their tutors and that some would prefer not to work with a tutor...
...children. When her husband died three years ago she went on New York streets to support her children. She earned, she said, $100 to $150 per week. After she went in "houses," however, the various deductions left her only $75 to $125 per week. "Which did you prefer," asked an attorney, "the streets or the houses...
Another class of students, also numerous, much prefer to work by themselves and consider meetings with tutors as a drag. Such men are particularly common in the sciences, but are also found in the humanities...
Railroad men prefer to write annual reports almost exclusively with figures. Though he may be baffled by such things as average gross tons per freight-locomotive mile or average cars per passenger-train mile, an inquisitive stockholder may learn how many hopper-bottom gondolas he owns or what percentage of main and branch lines are laid with 131-lb. rails. As conservative as the roads themselves, official statements are perennially drab in format. Last week Union Pacific broke its tradition of severe grey covers by dressing up its annual report for 1935 with a picture of a streamlined locomotive with...