Word: prefer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effect of House athletics on other parts of the intra-mural program has been exceptionally great. They have decidedly affected the various fraternities and clubs, in that men who live in the Houses and are also members of clubs or fraternities, seem to prefer to participate in House rather than fraternity athletics. The result of all this is that the clubs are having great difficulty in finding a sufficient number of players. Touch football this fall has been an outstanding example of this, only a few fraternity games having been played, where as in former years great interest was shown...
...revive confidence in that department. The Press promptly pointed its long finger at white-crested Bernard Mannes ("Barney") Baruch. Mr. Baruch contributed $61,000 to the campaign. By rights the job was his. But Mr. Baruch, now 62. evidently does not want it or any other. He may prefer to be an informal dictator of Democratic policy from the Wall Street side lines...
...current attitude toward charity relief work is a part of the general unwillingness to face the depression honestly in an effort to remedy its underlying causes. The national leaders and the country as a whole prefer to muddle along, cushioning the shock with temporary palliatives, refusing to analyze deeply and comforting themselves instead with noisy assurances that things will get better...
...prefers the backstairs method of controversy he is at liberty to make that choice. I prefer to keep my rapier clean and play the game as gentlemen in their code of ethics require...
...rats were scurrying out of their retreats by the thousands last week, slinking away to shudder and die in gutters and alleys. James Lorenz Nicholes, famed ratkiller, well knows the limitations of a rat's wisdom. A rat can distinguish between two kinds of food, may prefer one to the other or shun both. Put three kinds of victuals before a rat and it will confusedly gobble all. Applying this principle, Ratkiller Nicholes was busily ridding Chicago-temporarily, at least-of several million of its rats. Last week, his work done, he left for St. Louis...