Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Beginning. In 1919 minority stockholders in the Ford Motor Co., including Senator James Couzens of Michigan, sold their shares to Henry Ford for about $12,500 a share. They had to prefer him to outsiders, if he wanted their securities, according to a company bylaw. He did want their stocks. But before they sold they asked Daniel C. Roper, then U. S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, to evaluate their stocks for purpose of income tax. Commissioner Roper did them the favor; judged each share of Ford Motor Co. stock to be worth $9,489 in 1913, the year from which...
...been said with truth that we differ from the Romans in that we like our thrills in tabloid form whereas they chose to get their sensations at closer hand in the gladiatorial fights. Not only, however, do we prefer the sublimated honors which a well practiced imagination can build up, but in the course of 2000 years or so we have become more delicate in our tastes. No longer does a good, old fashioned, out and out murder whet the public appetite; we must have infinite complications--simple enough to be comprehended, but spicy--everything from Pig Women to perjury...
...must be adopted and financed, if accepted in their entirety today, would throw a tax burden upon the people that would cripple business, check prosperity and convert our annual surplus into an annual deficit. What needs to be done should be done. ... If I err in my judgment I prefer to err on the side of saving rather than on the side of spending...
...that is attractive. The original form was 'Cor-Cor-Cornell! I yell! Cornell!', but to this an addition is very frequently made to cause it to run 'Cor-Cor-Cornell! I yell like H---l! Cornell!' It is needless to add that the female members of the University prefer for it as it stood originally...
...Petting' and 'necking' are about the same; but girls prefer to describe it by the former word and youths by the latter...