Word: prefer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...store, for the Bernarr MacFaddens up at West Haverstraw have put their undefiled and undraped minds together to produce a powerful program of persuasion. The halls of Harvard will soon echo the salubrious arguments of Olympian debaters, who plan to challenge the more retiring amongst us who prefer to have the human limb enshrouded in Hart, Schaffner and Marx, and mystery. In this way, they hope "to stimulate the interests of students in nudism and in the work of the league...
...just as easy to buy a carload of butter (19,200 lb.) as a carload of eggs (12,000 doz.), yet amateur speculators almost always prefer eggs. They know that when hens are not well fed in the great egg districts of the Midwest they seldom lay eggs. And even a well-fed hen dislikes to lay eggs in very hot weather. What most amateur speculators do not know is that the leading trading medium is October eggs, which were all laid in March, April and May?before the drought seriously affected production. There are 9,000,000 cases...
...would look well in any wardrobe, most of these Russian shorts are made to hang on a Soviet peg. An "artist in uniform," as Critic Max Eastman calls Author Romanof (TIME, May 14), he usually points a Marxian moral with no uncertain finger. U. S. readers will prefer those stories which their author has not underlined...
...appear in all three dimensions. Such a three-dimensional portrait of a racketeer is Brain Guy. A more honest and complete picture than The Postman Always Rings Twice (TIME, Feb. 19), it is written with lengthier brutality, will shock readers who dislike unpleasant subjects, but will entrance those who prefer violent realism...
Thrifty Scots much prefer a drawing room to the expensive sort of "courts" Their Majesties hold in London. Wearing no court gear, proud Scotsmen arrived in stiff tartan kilts, squiring their soft-skirted women. Beside George V. who wore the Scots Greys' scarlet and gold, Queen Mary convexed majestically in a gown of silver and pastel pink lace upon which blazed the 106-carat Koh-i-nor. Scots gossips twittered that before King Edward set the present style for London courts. Queen Victoria used to hold drawing rooms "when her Mistress of the Robes was the present Duke of Buccleuch...