Word: prefer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Blood Purge of June 30, 1934, when over 200 Germans were shot by Adolf Hitler's orders to make things easier for the Party (TIME, July 9, 1934), some 120,000 Germans were mobilized last week in Berlin. Announced Berlin Deputy Party Leader Goerlitzer who made the arrangements: "We prefer to demonstrate in intimate simplicity. We scorn to stage a pompous and festive program...
...syndicate; I've run a daily column myself and I know it's a tough job. But when he gets into the bookshops then I feel a certain sense of trade honor involved. ... I work hard over my stuff, and if people are going to read it I'd prefer them to get it in the Saturday Review . . . under my own name than in the Hearst papers under...
...they are amiable, emotionally stable, co-operative and socially adaptable, they are less gregarious and socially ambitious than divorced men, less gratified by admiration, less attracted to talkative or fashionably dressed people. They like household pets, dislike gruff men. They are good at handling complaints. They are conservative, cautious, prefer not to make plans alone, would not like to be criminal lawyers or stockbrokers, seldom try to bluff their way past doormen. They like clergymen and teetotalers more than the other groups do; are not inclined to daydream; resent criticism. They rather like to argue which they do without losing...
...lonely less frequently than divorced men. They want steady, permanent work, have less initiative, resolution and self-confidence than the other groups, but like change, outside work, think well of being railway conductors. They are quick to argue but dislike argument. They study their problems alone but prefer not to take chances alone. They pretend to be radicals but are actually conservative. They like to make radio sets, repair clocks, drive automobiles; are not much interested in languages, philosophy, music, literature...
Unhappy Wives dislike being watched. They find their advice is seldom asked. They prefer easy jobs to hard jobs, get to work late, neglect details, are careless with their belongings. They incline to daydream, have "useless thoughts," feel inferior, have dizzy spells, regard themselves as nervous. They dislike to lend money or give help in an accident. They tend to be tactless, unsympathetic, petulant, critical. They resemble happy wives in liking social welfare work, picnics, excursions and parties and in expecting solicitude when they are ill; but they prefer not to ask advice and to face their troubles alone. They...