Word: prefer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should (by we I mean most of my friends who live in the dormitory) prefer the Tivoli Theatre, one of Balaban and Katz' chain. It is convenient to the university community. Besides we go there fairly frequently, for they have most of the pictures one wants to see. Last but not least, your picture would furnish the last link in the process of rationalization necessary to justify a movie instead of study...
...Bristol the Royal Institute of Chemistry. As a chemist, he scoffed at "the popular fallacy that to blow combatants to bits with high explosives is less bestial, wicked and cruel than to attack them by gas." President Levinstein strongly implied that rather than be blown to bits he would prefer to die gassed...
Philadelphia midwives are forbidden to use instruments to deliver babies. They must call a doctor when labor is difficult. Discounting those rules and averring that he did not prefer midwives to doctors, Dr. Nicholson chided obstetricians thus...
...Toyland (Hal Roach). With the notable exception of Walt Disney cartoons, fantasy is not a form of entertainment in which the cinema excels. Particularly in fantasy for children, there usually prevails a certain horrid condescension on the part of producers who, unwilling to risk inventing fantasies of their own, prefer to adapt classics. This fact makes it hard to believe that any adaptation of Victor Herbert's famed operetta would amount to more than a ridiculous calamity. Fortunately, Producer Hal Roach, well-versed in the art of gag comedies, saw fit to throw most of his original material...
...transportation comfort, has helped keep Pullman's great shops open. More than 1,200 Pullman cars have been equipped to date, and another 1,000 will be finished by the end of 1935. The company has developed its own air-conditioning machinery but a few railroads prefer to install other types. The 141 Pullmans used in Baltimore & Ohio's crack trains are all fitted with York machinery. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe has 30 Pullmans equipped by Carrier Corp. However, Pullman has outfitted about one-half of the 1,400 air-conditioned diners, club and lounge cars owned by the railroads...