Word: prefer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Middle and Far East there is, the Commission found, a notable absence of that "vulgarity" common in brothels of the West.* Most Asiatics prefer to hire women of their own race. Solemnly the Commission postulates and advises that: 1) The principal factor in promotion of the international traffic in women in the East is the brothel. 2) The most effective remedy is abolition of the licensed brothel. 3) The most serious problem, so far as Occidental victims are concerned, is provided by the Russian women refugees in Manchuria and Northern China. 4) A large majority of Chinese prostitutes enter...
...three-cushion billiard championship; by beating John Layton, ten times titleholder, 50 to 33, in the deciding match; at Chicago. It was the first three-cushion tournament Cochran, balkline champion in 1928, had ever entered. Said he, after winning: "I'm sure I'm going to prefer balkline...
...current Congressional measure proposing material enlargement of the presidential powers on expenditure is meeting the predicted opposition of large blocs in both houses. Republican leaders fear that a dictatorship is imminent, and prefer the stagnant multiplicity which has already been so effective in impeding fiscal adjustment...
...automatically" discontinued is at least an indication that the body has come to realize the futility of the elections. But at the same time it demonstrates an unfortunate timidity in assuming the responsibility for putting through a measure at once which they admit is inevitable, but which they prefer to leave for another Council Board to negotiate...
After reading your transcript of Doctors DeLee and Siedentopf "Facts of Birth." . . . I am quite sure that a goodly number of your 400,000 would prefer to remain at home, or perhaps not go through the performance at all. The statement, "Home delivery, even under the poorest conditions, is safer than hospital delivery," has to be taken with more than a grain of salt. I feel it very bad propaganda to unduly alarm the prospective maternal American public as to the safety of hospital delivery...