Word: preferable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Because of the general defense-mentality of the teachers for all problems, there is a marked preference for solutions given in the past . . . Older solutions have proved to be perfectly consonant with theological thinking. A new solution has no such guarantee . . . There is a strong urge to make questions timeless with timeless answers. New questions are preferably reduced to old ones and hence they need not be answered anew, because the old answer is already there. This deepfreeze technique gives the students the impression that there really are no new questions . . . Instead of making the disciplines an intellectual encounter with...
...past, steel price increases have been immediately felt throughout the economy as users rushed to pass on the hike to the consumer. But there was considerable doubt that last week's boost would set off a round of consumer price rises. Competition is intense, and many industries may prefer to absorb the increases-which amount to only $11.58 on a $3,000 car, 66? on a $300 refrigerator-rather than raise prices; others may delay price increases for many months. A spokesman for one of the big three automakers said, for example, that he did not expect the steel...
There have been some indications that women might prefer the prestige of holding a degree from Harvard rather than Radcliffe--although President Pusey currently countersigns every Annex degree. The secretary of the Radcliffe Graduate School reports that occasionally an applicant will ask if she can obtain a Harvard diploma, and that graduate students in applying for national scholarships are prone to say that they attend Harvard rather than Radcliffe...
...need not dwell on his years of service in this community, but prefer to speak of the good fortune of the University in having in its janitorial staff a person who has contributed so much to the Harvard education of so many young men. During two decades at the Commuters' Center in Dudley and then in Claverly Hall his example and, when he thought it necessary, his criticisms have taught countless undergraduates the value of gentlemanly conduct and of directness and integrity for leading a good life. It was a pleasure to be associated with him for the two years...
...does not afflict me personally." He read hugely, but at times with so little discrimination that his head felt full of "pebbles and rubbish and broken matches and lots of glass picked up 'most everywhere.' " When he was losing his eyesight he devoted hours to reading Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, but lost patience after two pages of a book about D. H. Lawrence's sex-ridden Lady Chatterley's Loner. The critique was, he thought, a piece of propaganda "in favour of something which, outside of D.H.L.'s own country at any rate, makes...