Word: prefer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week there was an announcement of changes at Philadelphia. Depression makes a difference. In Boston this summer it seemed to make audiences prefer sad music to merry music (TIME, July 18). In Philadelphia next season, with the sanction of Conductor Stokowski, the programs will be "almost entirely devoted to the acknowledged masterpieces." The directors of the orchestra feel that "audiences prefer music which they know and love, and that performances of debatable music should be postponed until a more suitable time...
...made a point of TIME's availability for weekend reading, I believe. By subscribing I have lost that very feature. Can anything be done about it? I use, as you will note, a postbox, to which TIME might be sent if that would ensure Saturday delivery, though I prefer delivery to my home otherwise...
...your July 25 issue, you carried the advertisement of a "Christian" hotel, thus allying yourself with those who prefer to flaunt their anti-Jewish prejudice in the open, and effectively destroying my respect for TIME...
...cherished Boston College, erected many & many a Roman Catholic church, school, charitable institution. Hale & hearty as he is, he perhaps tires of Boston, of his lavish three-story Italianate house which, built on a rock ledge, is jarred by passing trolleys and trucks. Perhaps Cardinal O'Connell would prefer to spend his remaining days in tranquil Rome, where stands his titular church, ancient San Clemente, which he has beautified at a reputed cost of $100,000, with a marble bust of himself outside...
Many persons prefer not to have their name in the directory nor on "information's" lists. Not so Gould & Newman. Last week they sought $250,000 damages for the omission, which they claimed was an error, likewise sought to restrain distribution of the directory until their name and that of Senior Partner Edward J. Gould is included...