Word: preferable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Computer builders prefer semiconductors to vacuum tubes because they are 99.9% reliable, v. 80% to 95% in a comparable tube, have a much longer life, take far less space, and require less power. Since a single modern computer may have 25,000 tubes, the repair time saved is immense...
...Bickford, or Hazen's, or the Wursthaus, or Jim's Place and that is what the sign over the door says, for those who do not know any better and read the sign--or the University Restaurant which Hemingway does not go to, but which Fitzgerald was known to prefer, or to the Casablanca, or the Cafe Mozart. The coffee varies; but you get to know what it tastes like in each place...
...student who has chosen his own program of "general education" or pre-med distribution--as opposed to intense concentration--may not wish to go out of his way to read more scholarly works in his field than his department demands. If he is majoring in government, he might prefer a tutorial in which he could read and discuss "Great Books" in economics, history, sociology, or anthropology to a strictly governmental tutorial. Or, if he were taking an upper-level English course which did not offer sections, he might like to attend an English literature tutorial for a semester...
Silence of Fear. In this situation Birmingham's moderates mostly prefer to keep their thoughts to themselves. Result: a vacuum of leadership. Those businessmen who profess moderation run the risk, if not of dynamite, of economic reprisals such as loss of jobs, promotions, trouble with city licenses, city contracts, harassment on petty auto mobile offenses, tightening up on loans, etc. Mayor James Morgan, popular with businessmen, in office since 1937, is privately telling friends that he intends to resign next year - "I used to enjoy going to the City Hall. I don't any more." Housewives who profess...
...American movie (except the inexpensive and badly lighted ones, or the solemn westerns, like High Noon); to dislike any foreign films (except those imitating American ones); to believe that you can buy ready-made a good hi-fi set; to wear a non-ivy-league suit ... to prefer American cars, for any reason, to European; to believe that there may be any justice in the official position on Oppenheimer; to defend Western diplomacy on my basis; to invite company to dinner without candles on the table and without chamber music in the background; to criticize Arthur Miller or Tennessee Williams...