Word: prefer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Annual bidders every spring for the best of the U. S. college track crop are Philadelphia and Des Moines. Many runners prefer the spectacle of the Penn Relays staged at Franklin Field. Others yield to the extravagant ballyhoo of the Drake Relays, held in that tiny University's huge horseshoe stadium. Last week Philadelphia's 42nd enticed 3,000 entries from schools and colleges; Des Moines' 27th, 2,000. Both groups gave spectators few records, many thrills...
...take only three courses and pay the $100 course fee for this fruitless service. Doubtless it would be manifestly unfair to abolish the system while there are still some men who do derive benefits from tutorial and desire its continuance. But since there are so many concentrators who would prefer to take a fourth course in place of tutorial, students should at least be allowed to choose whichever plan they prefer. This reform, the only one necessary to round out an otherwise model department, deserves immediate attention, as men who are at present getting practically no tutoring are being virtually...
Medicine and physical anthropology are the only two fields of knowledge concerned exclusively with human biology. Medicine is much more important to the ordinary man, hence is much more lavishly endowed. "Anthropology," explains Dr. Hooton, "reveals many things which most persons prefer not to know, since it harps upon humble and even bestial origins, regards the present status of our species without approbation and can predict for the man of the future no apotheosis but only a multiplication of psychoses, dental caries, malocclusions and fallen arches, together with a full retention of his aboriginal cussedness...
...Senate Committee had violated the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution which guarantees the people security "in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures." After Mr. Hogan, the attorney for Western Union said that his company was only a football in-the fracas, would prefer not to give up the telegrams, would leave the real answer to "a friend of the court...
...Rhineland were received with murmurs of approval, applause and even cheers as last week opened. Newsreels of Poilus marching up to defend the French frontier were almost everywhere received by Britons in silence. Inquiring reporters for Baron Beaverbrook stopped 5,000 citizens to ask: "Do you on the whole prefer the French or the Germans?" The answer, blazoned next day in London's Daily Express, was that 21% had no preference, 24% preferred the French and 55% preferred the Germans...