Word: prefer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Could I choose I'd prefer to write verse...
...also counsel to the Edison Electric Institute, Lawyer Davis jumped at an opportunity to take the Public Utility Act to court-particularly an opportunity in which the constitutional defense will be in the hands, not of the Government, but of lawyers for an investment trust which would prefer to see American States liquidated rather than reorganized...
Today most learned Jews apparently prefer to dwell on the vagueness of biological racial distinctions and the fallacy of "Aryanism" rather than search for signs of a mental orientation that sets Jews of whatever nationality apart from non-Jews. But not Abraham Aron Roback, thoughtful and erudite Jewish psychology professor at Boston's Institute of Advertising, onetime instructor at Harvard. To the current issue of Character and Personality Dr. Roback contributed a report on characteristics of Jewish habits of thought and modes of expression...
...Which do you prefer: slinky evening dresses? fluffy evening dresses...
...feel it incumbent on ourselves to confess a slight preference for slinky evening dresses. However, we have always desired to see certain girls in evening dresses that are slinky about the hips and fluffy about the shoulders, and certain other girls in gowns which are fluffy about the hips and slinky about the shoulders. Other girls, of course, we should prefer not to wear evening gowns...