Word: prefer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quoted him as saying: "Harvard is too near the cities. I prefer the open country." No information could be obtained from the Committee on Admissions as to whether his application had been withdrawn. The outcome will be interesting. During his college career, President Roosevelt was president of the CRIMSON in 1904, and made a rather famous investigation to insure adequate fire apparatus and escapes in dormitories...
...Preference Sirs: I note with interest in your July 10 issue that I made the statement that children of a given sex invariably prefer the parent of the opposite sex, etc. etc. This is of particular interest because I made no such statement. . . . The statement I actually made, in response to a question asked by the chairman of the meeting, was that my data seemed to bear out the Freudian hypothesis [that a child invariably prefers the parent of opposite sex] but that there were many exceptions. ROSS STAGNER University of Wisconsin Madison...
With reference to your excellent and courteous recognition of the passing away of Stoddard King in Spokane, Wash, last week [TIME, June 26], it is noteworthy and lamentable that the work by which a fine creative mind is best known is usually the one by which he would least prefer to be known. Stoddard King's work matured to such extremely fine flights of puckish fancy in his later years that the continual reference to the fact that he wrote "The Long, Long Trail'' irritated him. Many of us often thought that King would have liked...
...vote would undoubtedly show that most of our right-thinking and broad-minded citizens would much prefer that the name Hoover Dam be retained, as does Democratic Mr. Paul Clayton, whose interesting letter I have just read in your June 12 issue...
California's tall, blond President Robert Gordon Sproul, who usually speaks in a booming voice, commented warily: "I should prefer, of course, that athletes should come to the University without any solicitation whatever, even on the basis of the superior educational advantages we have to offer. The fact is, however, that high school stars are seldom, if ever, permitted to select a college or university on any such basis. ... I shall watch . . . with interest and hope...