Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Morison describes as characteristic of Oxford: "His (the student's) individuality is respected, but he is gently guided along the path of self-development and well being. Here it is sink or swim, with only an overworked 'baby dean' as a straw to the drowning man. I, for one, prefer this robust if sometimes un-salutary neglect...
...Every patron has some notion of his own, every site is different. Yet Delano and Aldrich, now that they are to their branch of the profession what Cram and Ferguson or McKim, Mead and White are to theirs, are generally allowed a fairly free hand in their designs. They prefer to arrange, not the house alone, but the grounds and gardens which go with...
...that the prepondering majority of college students have not the capacity to pursue bookish knowledge. Certainly there is support for this view, but there is also an increasing body of evidence that the development of such a capacity is not beyond a very large proportion of those who now prefer a life of stereotyped activity...
Soon the jury found for Miss Adele; and Mr. Justice Humphreys was obliged to sentence the constables to 18 months imprisonment for "conspiracy to prefer a false charge...
...percentages, and when one has percentages, one has championships. After that it is but a short step to the intercollegiate contest in touch football, which first reared its irregular-shaped head last year. Harvard's defeat of Brown at that time came as tidbit for those who prefer the deft to the desperate in sport, and who think that a lateral followed by a snap pass into the flat zone is a more beautiful thing than the temporary ataxia of the left side of the opposing line...