Word: prefer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anyone can with small effort indeed call to mind some of the greatest scholars and scientists, philosophers and poets, who, far from striving for eminence in their fields, seemed to prefer general notoriety. Some, like Gregor Mendel, were content without either notoriety or eminence...
...that if French women are given the vote they can be depended on to always vote for peace. "French women are impulsive," retorted anti-Feminist Jose, "they could vote for war as well as peace. Many would vote contrary to their husbands in a spirit of contradiction. I would prefer a dozen babies to a seat in the Chamber of Deputies...
Japan subsidizes spidery-limbed Mr. Pu, provides him with a life of modest splendor in the Japanese quarter of Tientsin, holds him up her sleeve as a possible puppet emperor whom she might place on the throne of any part of China which might secede (see p. 19) and prefer a monarchy to a republic. Last week aggrieved Concubine Shu Fei told what life is like at Mr. Pu's queer court...
...last year, all of the dormitory accommodations of the Business School will be filled. The buildings hold about 900 students, while the total enrollment of the School is expected to number 1,050. This difference is taken up partly by those who prefer to live outside and at home, and partly by married students. The total number of applications for the School this year has been slightly smaller than last, when about 1,250, a record number, were received...
...time was, not very long ago, when every village was self-sufficient in regard to the two primary human wants, food and clothing. Unfortunately for us the East India Co. by means which I would prefer not to describe, destroyed that supplementary village industry, and the millions of spinners who had become famous through the cunning of their deft fingers for drawing the finest thread, such as has never yet been drawn by any modern machinery. ... No matter what may be said to the contrary it is a historical fact that before the advent of the East India Co. these...