Word: prefer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...army divisions to force them to comply with the law." Mr. Johnston, very much in earnest, interrupted : "As between civil war in the industry and subjection of the industry to the proconsuls [northern coal operators who accepted the wage agreement] working through a military ringmaster [General Johnson], we prefer civil war." "I do not think," said Mr. Lewis contemptuously, "that it will come to that. Those operators seek to make a virtue of imposing more degrading working conditions and medieval barbarism than any other mining region"-and proceeded to pile it on until the Southerner, fuming with rage, confronted...
...reflection on Author Feuchtwanger's character, TIME'S description traced a resemblance, intended no insult. Let it be beaver or squirrel for those who prefer...
...frequent, hilarious have become the vocal and physical acrobatics of Congressman Francis Henry ("Shooey") Shoemaker (TIME, March 19) that Minnesota TIMEscribers prefer to read of his latest hippodroming under Sport...
Those are the questions that the Ecco public Market of Harvard Avenue, Allton set out to answer when they began keeping an accurate index of the customers and the beverages purchased. And the results of that survey indicate that students prefer Scotch whiskey to all students other delicacies...
...have run an advertisement from Heinz under the topical head "Victuals" which in no way is distinguished from the news text. If there is a difference I was too annoyed to hunt for it. I was tricked into reading that ad. I like to read advertisements but I prefer to be persuaded to read them, not have trickery do it. It was not an accident that the ad appeared in the manner it did. It was calculated and at the same time it was theft. Can you get around that? No possible explanation you can give will absolve you from...