Word: preferable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University, according to President Pusey, is very interested in the project which may induce more faculty members to live in Cambridge and thereby help to create the mythical "academic community." At present many faculty members prefer to live in other more attractive suburban areas...
Thus, concluded Jack Kennedy,* it "seems to me that we are no longer able to consider this resolution on its merits alone. We have been forced by the President's action to consider also the effects of its passage or defeat . . . Many of us would prefer not to vote for this resolution but we dare not, under present world conditions, vote against...
...promote executives are still far more interested in the husband's abilities than in the wife's worth. Said an Atlanta executive: "We need good men so bad they could be married to almost anyone and we'd grab 'em. Of course, we'd prefer that she not use a toothpick, but beyond that she's his problem, not ours." Most corporations hope for some social relationships among executives, but do not try to forge them by selecting wives to fit into a pattern. "I doubt very much," says Mrs. George Romney, wife...
Miles, too, said that he thought it would be "foolish to prefer second-rate housing." He said that he knew of no case in which a student had expressed an open unwillingness to move; and no student said that a member of Dunster's staff had mentioned actual compulsion. But one sophomore said that his tutor had told him he would be pressured to vacate Wigglesworth, and another expressed the feeling that "they want us all to get down and participate in the Dunster Gung...
Economic unity is only the beginning of political unity. Common political attitudes will arise from identical financial interests, and although independent political action may be the first sign of Europe's strength, the United States should prefer a self-sufficient ally to a band of weak subsidiaries...