Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thomas B. Love, a candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Texas, who said: "As between chronic corruption and acute corruption, I prefer the acute. I want strongly to turn the rascals out, but I am just as strongly opposed to turning Tammany Hall in. I intend definitely to vote against Smith. ... As long as I live I am going to stay in the Democratic party...
...campus of New York University. These concerts cost nothing to hear. Sponsored by the Guggenheims (Mr. & Mrs. Daniel and Mr. & Mrs. Murray), they are conducted by Edwin Franko Goldman, who, ever since the concerts began eleven years ago, has never missed a performance. For denizens of Manhattan who prefer cigaret smoking to gum-chewing, Willem van Hoogstraten to Franko Goldman, and paying 25? to $1 for a seat to listening for nothing, there are the Philharmonic concerts at the Lewisohn Stadium. These are sponsored by Mrs. Charles S. Guggenheimer...
...silver screen. He has a cool countenance and, at one point, he becomes covered with snow. In a quiet way he is funny. He plays a middle-aged married man named Horace Trundle who is shorn of his bankroll by two chorus girls in the accepted Gentlemen Prefer Blondes fashion. In the end, his wife, Erne (Carol Holloway), gets him back. The cast is capable: Nancy Carroll as one of the girls...
From 7 to 11 o'clock the Yard will be the center of activities, with the climax of the evening's entertainment coming when the Glee Club sings on the steps of Widener Library. At 8 o'clock for those who prefer dancing to the more restful illuminated Yard, there will be dancing in Memorial Hall...
...future definitely decided; in a certain number of years he will be a lawyer, a physician. For him the opportunities for changes of mind are rare. Different is the case with the Arts and Sciences men; their goal is vague, indefinite. In consequence many men now leaning toward teaching prefer to reserve their decision until the further study which has come to be a requisite to success in education has solved their problem, in the meantime their status continues to be that of "student", although in reality their position is as much one of orientation as that...