Word: prefer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advance. Once an estimate has been accepted by the Government, all petroleum called for therein must be imported "irrespective of business conditions." Thus a huge oil reserve for the Japanese Navy must be piled up and maintained by oilmen of prospective enemy countries at their own expense-unless they prefer to quit doing business in Japan...
...promotion and recruiting in the faculty. Broadly speaking, there are in American practice three methods (not always mutually exclusive) of choosing a college faculty. The president may do it despotically; the head of each department may do it despotically; each department may do it democratically (or if you prefer, oligarchically) in much the way a club elects, its members. Mr. Chase feels that Harvard on the whole uses the club method, and that this method militates against the election of striking and original personalities. Unwilling to trust a single benevolent despot, he invents machinery of his own, a standing committee...
...Nationale who loudly protested to High Heaven and Benito Mussolini. Obviously Il Duce cannot take the chance of a French frame-up to plant responsibility for the crime in Italy or her protege Hungary.. Last week there was distinct danger that on this issue Jugoslavia might prefer charges before the League. A bit too precipitously Premier General Julius Gömbös of Hungary flared "We are innocent! We can prove...
...Washington office last week Mr. Jones summoned the heads of the seven major roads that connect with M. & St. L. Let the corpse of M. & St. L. be cut into seven pieces, Mr. Jones suggested, each of the connecting carriers buying one piece. RFC would, if necessary, prefer to lend them the purchase price rather than try to resuscitate M. & St. L. itself with cash direct. The seven big lines-Great Northern, Illinois Central, Rock Island, Wabash, Milwaukee, Chicago & North Western and Burlington-seemed to like the Jones "thought." Adjourning to Chicago, they ordered a thorough technical investigation...
...solidarity and are definitely a bore to those not selected to sit with the high and mighty upon the raised platform. Since the Dining Halls are not opened until six-thirty overcrowding usually results and many disgruntled persons are forced to wait for their meal when they would much prefer to eat earlier. Per all House dinners it is sensible and more convenient to adhere to the regular hours thus assuring everyone good service and no inconvenience...