Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...member. (TIME, Sept. 20, 1926).? Said he, after announcing that the country would take part in the Olympic Games next year: "I have observed with satisfaction this year the increase in your series of boat races, indicating an increase in your love of this sport and that you prefer boats for sporting purposes to boats leaving Spain. This is doubly consoling, since the new generation is introducing a new era, representing what Spain is, was and will...
...hospitable to all honest criticism, favorable or adverse. ("We would far prefer to have 10,000 subscribers writing in every week to abuse us heartily than to have 10,000 subscribers saying nothing and dropping their subscriptions...
Otis Skinner, vice president, acting head, would ordinarily be the legal choice. But Mr. Skinner is a militant member of the Actors' Fidelity League; most of the Players are members of the rival Actors' Equity Association. They prefer, therefore, a member of their own group, Francis Wilson. To elect him, they must go to some pains, for Actor Wilson is not a member of the board of directors from which the chief executive must be chosen. The Players, however, could elect him to the board at the same time they elect him to the presidency...
...Opinions vary on height above ground a jumper must be for his parachute to open safely. Some say he falls 150 feet before floating; soberest flyers prefer 1,000 feet to light safely...
Touts, jockeys, trainers with the universal sentimentality of sporting characters, enjoy the supposition that race horses possess retentive memories. They would prefer to suppose that Dice, as he watched blood oozing out of his nostrils, preserved in his mind a blurred panorama of fields and stables, race tracks and boxcars. Outlined still in the confusion of the past would be the five spring afternoons of his five races; victories all, in which he won $43,000 for owners who had bought him for less than a quarter of that amount, valued him at more than twice that amount. There would...