Word: prefer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the Square to the Charles is apple-pie a la mode. The Dining Hall Dieticians feel they gave their all in the making of steamed chocolate pudding, foamy sauce (bread run through the steam tunnels, we suppose), up-side down pudding, etc., and that the untutored undergraduates merely prefer ice-cream. We editors like ice-cream, in moderate quantities, but are getting bored. We eat it merely for protest, not for preference. Maybe December 6th will find the Harvard desserts more consonant to the spirit of the House Plan...
...pleasantry. "There is no R. P. L. in Harvard University. . . . ". . . I have naturally attributed your present success to the mathematics you learned from me 35 years back. . . ." The President replied: "I am not in the least perturbed about the chime of bells because strictly between ourselves, I should much prefer to have a puppy dog or a baby named after me than one of those carillon effects that is never quite in tune and which goes off at all hours of the day and night! At least one can give paregoric to a puppy or a baby. "Referring...
...Buenos Aires books were opened last week for subscriptions to this Roca-Runciman loan. Argentina waited nervously to see how British firms would take the bait. Would they subscribe, or would they prefer to bootleg their money out of the country a few pounds at a time by selling pesos at special rates to tourists and others with dollar bills or pound notes? With relief Finance Minister Federico Pinedo soon announced...
...administration would prefer to have observers consider the whole picture rather than any single factor such as the buying of gold bullion. The' experiment being tried in 'endeavoring to regulate gold prices is not for a few weeks but for a relatively long period certainly until well after Congress ha reconvened, and perhaps the President will wish even then not to interrupt who will have begun to be an exchange stabilization fund for the American govern ment analogous to that established by Great Britain...
This sort of thing is unfair to the unsuspecting reader and viciously unfair to the author, who, I suspect, would prefer that his works were never read if they must first be emended by some virtuous Headmaster Bluenose bent on removing all traces of those ugly old Facts of Life. Is this a university or a boarding-school for neurotic girls? You men--especially you new men--who object to being treated like children will boycott courses where this disgusting practice obtains until it is removed. Sedgwick Mead...