Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Then along come the World and the Herald Tribune and the American. Next, the Daily News.* That's all right. With 2,400,000 morning newspapers sold in New York, nearly every one reads two or more papers, and it looks as if the readers of THE GRAPHIC prefer the BEST...
...More than one-third of you prefer the Physical Culture Page to any other feature. That guarantees to advertisers a vigorous, healthy audience-a following that for sheer vitality would be hard to beat...
...events the pragmatists can stand forth in the glory of his reasoning and complain. There is not a moving, vital, creative play here with the possible exception of the "Jazz Singer", Nor would it pay to bring one. Bostonians prefer the faded glories of second rate editions of the "Follies" to a piece of art, no matter how worthwhile. So the Harvard student can buy a book and read until college opens or play bridge. His theatrical reflexes must be dominated until his next vacation. He is in Boston...
...religion. Nor will these Moros ever forgive the Filipinos for forcing their children to go to school where they learn such bad habits as keeping their teeth white instead of black like their parents. Likewise, the Moros dislike both the Filipino and U. S. regimes but of the two prefer the U. S. Emissary Thompson had abundant evidence of this as he landed at Dansalan, Mindanao, where by onetime Filipino Legislature Representative Dau Tunpugao he was likened to "the rising sun" and told "we want to be governed from the beginning to the end of time by the Americans." Governor...
What makes the majority of people prefer the "nice, safe" ground to flying around the heavens in airplanes, is a maxim they used to read in their copybooks: "What goes up must come down." It is not likely that this maxim will ever be disproved, but there are ways and ways of "coming down." Refinements upon the art of gentle descent began at least five centuries ago when a quaint babu hugely diverted the court of Siam by jumping off the roof with two umbrellas hooked in his girdle...