Word: preferable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indians who live in Robeson County, N.C. are a tough but fairly peace-loving lot. They are called the Lumbees, and some claim to be descendants of the centuries-old Croatans.* They are professional people, political leaders, small businessmen, small farmers, sharecroppers; like most Indians, they prefer to keep to themselves while maintaining fairly good relations with the 40,000 whites and 25,000 Negroes in the area. But last week in Robeson County, there sounded ancient Indian anger. The Lumbees were out against the Ku Klux Klan, an organization of sons of immigrants who have long cried their devotion...
...Administration has refused to make public the results of the poll which asked juniors whether they would prefer to live in non-College accommodations...
...become ill, I would much prefer having the grocer treat me than that Montana practitioner...
...tutor, who preferred to remain anonymous, said, "I would prefer to read typed exams." He lamented that under the present system, 10 to 15 per cent of the exams he must grade are illegibly written, and consequently suffer lower grades...
House Masters will meet this morning with Dean Watson to consider results of last week's poll on whether members of the Class of 1959 prefer to live outside the University's seven-House dormitory system...