Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...things?"; it goes on to find out whether the candidate has any genuine interest in any special field; it concludes with the general question "Is it your great desire and ambition to go out and do things, letting others search for the why and wherefore, or would you prefer for the next four years to try to understand the things that others are doing?" He sums up with the shrewd inquiry, "Do you want to make a living or a life?" His judgment is that the desire to "make a living" will find no satisfaction in a college education...
When I take bodily nourishment, I prefer to do so with a certain amount of leisure, spicing the rite with conversation with a kindred spirit. Even a few relevant words from the waiter are not unwelcome. Feeding and dining are both operations that have to do with food. But feeding is just high pressure stoking of the alimentary tract with fuel. "Feeders" resent the time required to do the job, and are hoping that some bright chap will soon boil all food down to a capsule that can be taken on the run, with no time...
...influence the practical theatre arts of today, while Harvard goes happily back to a philological study of the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher, or awards a Ph. D. for a thesis about the influence of Latin Comedy on the plays of Ben Jonson. I vastly prefer Iowa, where you can get at least an A. M. for a first rate job of stage production. I think it is a good deal more important today to develop a Ben Jonson of our own than to pore endlessly over the works of one dead three hundred years. Certainly Broadway this past winter...
Some people prefer union suits because no shirt crawls up the back in warm weather. Others prefer two-piece suits because these do not bind at the crotch. Both types were good customers for knit underwear makers who, in 1925, sold 11.500,387 dozen union suits, 11,261,521 dozen shirts and drawers. Total value was $163,276,772. Pennsylvania has 114 of the 298 factories...
...therefore, Harvard's policy . . . to play football with other collegest only at suitable intervals", and points out urbanely that this policy is by no means "exclusive", and that we would be exclusive if we insisted on playing the same institutions year after year", that "it simply asserts that we prefer to play the game as a same." The Editors, in their own page, chime in an active higher, and berate in a few semi-quavers the easy chair athletes whose howls mingle lugubriously with the dally chronicles of arson, murder, and adultery in the columns of New York and Boston...