Word: prefer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...college; no, yes, frequently, occasionally?": "Do you drink outside of college?": "Do most elders in your home environment drink, frequently, etc.?"; "Did you drink before you came to college?"; "Which do you favor, strict enforcement or repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment?"; and "When and if repealed, would you prefer Federal or State control of the manufacture and sale of liquor?" Another question asked for a listing in order of the three alcoholic beverages most commonly indulged...
Italian fencer. In fact, all Italians (and Argentines) prefer the advance thrust to the lunge, thrust of the French (and Americans, English, and Belgians). The advance thrust, also, is a favorite device of short fencers when they compete with fencers of long reach, a fact which may explain the preference of short Italians for the movement...
...French, according to L'Eclio de Paris, prefer that such event be staged in the Mediterranean, and if possible, before the Colonial Exposition. The Journal des Debats agrees with this suggestion, but insists that no parity be given the Italians until the war would have been won by the French...
...Arrest that editor!" commanded General Cihoski, and a little later Professor Maniu announced that the British, French and Polish Ministers had pledged him the joint support of their Governments if needed. "Personally I prefer to believe that no emergency exists," said M. Maniu to correspondents. He went on to suggest that the Soviet mobilization was to pre vent the escape from Russia into Rumania of peasants made desperate by the oppression of the Moscow Regime...
After endless hours of cards and questions and careful computations, Dr. Moffet learned that: The favorite authors of American teachers are the best sellers. Temple Bailey, Gene Stratton Porter and Charles Dickens. Like several million others, they prefer the films to the drama, and musical comedy to opera. They like sacred music, also jazz and love songs. The average teacher is the daughter of a small business man, a skilled workman or a farmer; her average sister is a stenographer, a nurse or a clerk. Her average sources of average pleasure are picnics, amateur plays and basketball games. She goes...