Word: prefer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This questionnaire, which is a routine affair and does not reflect any discontent on the part of the Law Men, asks as its leading question "Would you prefer a four year law course combined with four years of college, or would you prefer three years of college with four years of law, the first year of law taking the place of the last year of college?" This final idea was brought up by Dean Pound in his report this year...
...Rejecting a Senate request that he proclaim a national celebration of Mother's Day, President Roosevelt declared: "I prefer to think that the tributes which will be paid to mothers will come simply and spontaneously from our hearts...
...White South Africans are outnumbered by blacks three to one. Somebody must administer Southwest Africa, and, rather than give it to Portugal (its northern neighbor) or France, the Afrikanders would prefer Germany. France's policy of raising, training, and arming huge levies of black troops they feel is a definite threat to white supremacy in Africa. It is a mistake which Nazi Germany, with its passion for Aryanism, would not make...
...Kroll's hobby," explain his friends, "is pretty women." When he is not painting them, he likes to show them his one brown eye, one blue, make conversation by asking which they prefer. His cinema heroines are Mae West and Jean Harlow. Flippant and temperamental. Artist Kroll works hard at his painting and his beautiful young French wife sometimes takes her knitting to the studio while he paints. With her and his bilingual daughter he speaks French...
...companies, counter freezers do not dispense individual portions for a dime but they are supposed to permit a druggist to make his own ice cream at a considerable saving. No mixing is done in the store; the prepared "mix"' is bought from dairy companies. The dairy companies much prefer to sell not ''mix" but ice cream, in which the profit is bigger...