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Word: preferable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Surely most Americans prefer a Republican peace "recession" to a Democratic war "prosperity." Or have we forgotten that every major war in this century occurred under Democratic "leadership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 31, 1958 | 3/31/1958 | See Source »

Municipal Matters. The march of the highways is not always a boon to the small town. Hazel Crest, Ill. (pop. 4,000) has been pierced by the new Tri-State Tollway and would prefer not to have been. Reason: the town already has one of Illinois' highest tax rates and lowest school budgets. The tollway removes from the rolls property that brought an estimated $500,000 a year in taxes. Because of the tax loss, Hazel Crest schools have had to postpone plans for kindergartens and broader art, music and physical education courses. The tollway has also generated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGHWAYS: The Great Uprooting | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

...much time (14.2 hours a week) as in their classrooms, but as pupils grow up to the sixth grade they devote almost equal time to school (27½ hours a week) and televiewing (26 hours a week). Other findings: ¶ Offered a choice, 51% of the children would prefer a sound spanking to a parental blackout of their favorite program. ¶ Parents must threaten or nag 43% of the youngsters to wrench them from TV at mealtimes, 46% at bedtime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Opiate of the Pupil | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

...finger and crying: "Tac-tac-tac." She tried to undress on the witness stand and, frantically spinning a bracelet on her wrist, alternately withdrew her charge against the defendant and renewed it. A French doctor assured the court that Witness Bouazza was sane; two other doctors said they would prefer to express no opinion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALGERIA: Tac-Tac-Tac | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

...workmanship. Doris Day is an instructor of journalism. When she invites Gable to address her class, he replies with a sneer: "In the school I graduated from, there were no lectures without four-letter words in them ... I think you're wasting your time, and I prefer not to waste mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 17, 1958 | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

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