Word: prefer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only hope the French realize how much Germany would prefer the outstretched hand of friendship to the clenched fist!" cried General Goring, Premier of Prussia etc., etc. "Germany has no need to occupy Danzig by force, because natural laws impose themselves. . . . We are ready to cooperate for a world peace which respects Germany's honor and freedom. . . . Remember the Saar...
...prefer the real Government of Japan to the camouflage Government of China !" boomed the Duke of Atholl. "The best plan is to leave Japan alone to occupy Manchuria and Inner Mongolia...
...recent announcement of "secret, direct and equal" suffrage. Excerpts from the tart answer of Monitor Muscovites last week: "If the Communists were content to express their aims honestly, and to describe conditions in Russia as they are, it would be much easier to sympathize with them. Unfortunately, they prefer to misrepresent conditions not only to their own people, but to the outside world as well, to lay claims to a democracy which still has no existence in Russia and to dismiss with ill-natured contempt and scorn the hard-won political freedom of western democracies...
...capabilities of Edward G. Robinson as an actor are well known. In this picture the audience is provided with an excellent opportunity to decide which they prefer: Mr. Robinson the hero, or Mr. Robinson the gangster-villain. For in this picture Mr. Robinson is both. The story concerns itself with the adventures of a poor, harmless, rabbit-like clerk when it is discovered that he bears an astonishing resemblance to the escaped killer and big shot, Mannion, Both paris are played by Mr. Robinson. Jean Arthur, who has seldom shone very brightly in the stellar firmament of Hollywood, gives...
Author Frank, admitting that not enough is known of Cervantes "to build up a biography without gaps," has chosen to write his life in novel-form. U. S. readers will prefer Author Frank's version to Spanish Author Tomas' (TIME, July 23), but may find themselves wishing they knew more about Cervantes than either biographer can tell them. To such a wish Bruno Frank would reply: "Then read Don Quixote...