Word: preferable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...height, be sure to make this stipulation, that the suit shall be a fit. Of course this may be a slight trouble, but not half so much as a law-suit. To be sure, most stores guarantee a fit and thus save trouble. Perhaps most of the students would prefer not to patronize such a store. Well, of course they are at liberty to do as they please...
...Lasell Leaves speaks in rapturous terms of a "Spring, spring, beau - " But why she should prefer a spring beau to any other kind of a beau is not stated. But we have no doubt that a pearl-satin bow would prove just as satisfactory; or a bouquet; or even a Bo Peep spring bonnet...
...Piot. One is a large figure picture representing two richly dressed Italian peasant women offering an orange to a pretty child, upon whom the attention is centred. The drawing is superb, and the flesh tints, though delicate and soft, do not possess the naturalness of a Bouguereau. Yet many prefer Piot to the latter...
...That in the judgment of the directors the above arrangement will enable men who prefer the present board at five dollars to procure it for the same cost, while it will secure to those preferring lower rates and simpler fare a system which will fully meet their desires...
...proposed to circulate a paper at Memorial to receive the signatures of those who are willing and desire to stay in the hall with even the present rates for board. There are undoubtedly many who would prefer this alternative to the closing of the hall...