Word: prefer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freshman year is so well arranged that men can determine what sort of friends they prefer. A compatible group of newcomers, therefore, would be assured in each House after the accomodations had been reshuffled and definitely arranged. Instead of seven second-rate boarding houses, the Houses could become real entities, composed of inmates of kindred spirit, and possessing separate characteristics and personalities. Men would no longer leave the Houses to live in quarters which, repugnant in themselves, are employed only because they assure congenial living companions...
...Deal. Last week Publisher Gannett, sunning himself in Miami, was glad to run as second choice for Senator Borah in Ohio in order to save the Supreme Court from Franklin Roosevelt. Said he: "It would mean a great sacrifice for me to accept any public office, and I prefer to devote myself to my newspapers. . . . However, such a grave crisis confronts the nation that all who believe in our precious institutions . . . must be ready to make many sacrifices. ... If the Republicans will nominate Senator Borah, he will be elected and the America we love will be saved...
Questions asked in this poll of employees are: 1.) Do you prefer the Student Employment Plan to employment outside the University? Why? 2.) Do you feel the hours too long for the compensation? (If so please specify the job or type of job you hold...
...adopt a two-power air standard-a British Royal Air Force twice as strong as that of any other nation! . . . The League of Nations has failed, and we must rely on our own strong right arm. . . . There is more loot in London than in Addis Ababa, and I prefer that London should not be at the mercy of any Dictator!" Only Comrade William Gallacher, the House's new and lone Communist M. P., opposed Britain's current $1,500,000,000 rush to increase her armament (TIME, Nov.11), a rush so precipitous that last week the Admiralty besought...
...prefer the Harvard method. --Columbia Spectator, February...