Word: prefer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yard. To place it near the Charles implies no breach of trust with those who have contributed the funds. Inevitably the center of undergraduate life is shifting from the Yard towards the riverbank. If proper location could be found in the new neighborhood there is every reason to prefer such a site. Certainly in the midst of the House Plan the chapel would have its best chance to become an integral part of student life...
...available records show Senator Long's middle name. He says it is neither Pierce, Pearce nor Parham, but Polycarpe. Most interested Louisianans prefer Parham...
...over "the home," vowed that only his election could perpetuate Republican prosperity. One might have thought he was running against thin air for all the notice he took of the energetic, loud-speaking, issue-raising, far-traveling Brown Derby. His cautious, banal campaign was unsatisfying to those citizens who prefer a direct discussion of immediate issues to a lofty dissertation on the abstractions of American idealism...
...told Gen. Butler I would have to prefer charges against him if he neglected his duty in that way. Under these circumstances there was nothing else for Gen. Butler to do but put Col. Williams under arrest at once...
...must control population. . . . We are forced to a choice. Nature's remedies are pestilence, war, disease and famine. Personally I prefer to substitute the more human method to the cruel natural process." -Henry Pratt Fairchild, New York University sociologist...