Word: prefer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Best-dressed" seniors at America's leading colleges are definitely against the clumsy old-fashioned fly. Though they prefer the smooth flat slide-fastened fly, they are also opposed to the uncovered zipper which displays a strip of bare metal. Kover-Zip, the invisible seamline closure demanded by good taste, has won approval in college from coast to coast. Here are a few typical comments on Kover-Zip by college they selected as "best-dressed...
...syndicate and not a person, "Duggie" is London's Douglas Stuart Ltd. ("Duggie Never Owes"), world's biggest firm of racetrack bookmakers. For years this British syndicate has been sending Sidney Freeman Sr., one of the directors, to the U. S. to buy up Sweepstakes tickets from persons who prefer a small sure thing to a large chance. Last summer Sidney Freeman Jr. went along, watched his father trade $100,000 cash for Epsom Derby lottery tickets which won some $225,000 (TIME, June 18). After that lesson Sidney Sr. decided that Sidney Jr. was ready to try his luck...
...compromise with the practical. With that attempt I sympathize, in theory. Cambridge has outgrown its unconcern with the contemporary, but American universities have had two centuries of modernity. Nevertheless the question of purpose needs to be reconsidered in relation to university training everywhere, and in this particular I prefer the English practice. Ostensibly the English system is run to produce bishops, judges, members of Parliament, Higher Civil Servants, and Pure Scientists. As these are assumed not to need any practical qualification, it is natural to train them--except, of course for the scientists--on the classics, history, literature or philosophy...
...breasts to wild carrot and onion blossoms or describes the mating of dinosaurs, she contrives to make neither an uncouth nor an arresting gesture. At the sight of a new sonnet sequence critics may hitch up to their typewriters and look for unstruck keys, but ordinary readers will prefer Poet Millay's less pretentious quatrains...
...shown east of California. Californians remember John Kelly as an advertising man who gave up his job eight years ago, went to Honolulu, won honorable mention at last year's International Exhibit in Los Angeles. A shy Irishman, Kelly and his sculptress wife live year round in Hawaii, prefer natives to tourists. He dislikes exhibiting, does so only when his wife argues him into...