Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...didn't like TIME at first, but you're getting me. Your magazine is certainly extraordinary, both in the range of real news it collects, and its utterly unusual method and ability in treatment. I should prefer a little less sprightliness in your discussion of some religious topics-but you can't help that...
...unreasonable. This delicate task requires considerable finesse if it is possible at all. Well-balanced tact is necessary to avoid offending a dictator or a sensitive South American government. Even if diplomatic sedatives fail, the League will suffer no irreparable injury by the resignation of two states which prefer their own advancement to international security...
...well inaugurated here should be necessary. But of any pioneer undertaking, no matter how praiseworthy, there is criticism. The success which has crowned his efforts to carry out his belief has, however, stilled all real objection. His belief is that the American people, and more especially college students, prefer great and lasting music to sentimental "goo," if they are given the chance to become acquainted with it. It is the function of the Harvard Glee Club, as indeed of all glee clubs, to give the colleges and the public the opportunity to hear and consequently to appreciate classic choral music...
...beautiful chapel which is shortly to be raised is opposed by certain crass souls so sunk in materialism that they prefer the flesh pots to the beauty of tranquil worship in cool marble halls. And think of the poor boys sleeping their last sleep in France--what could be more suitable than this aspiring, finger pointing toward Heaven in perpetual memory of their noble exploits? And what is wrong with the present gymnasium besides the fact that it is old and-considerably infested with the smallest of God's creatures. After all, should God be sacrificed because...
...Protestant, the only Protestant in Samnaun. Eighty years ago half the villagers were Catholic, half Protestant; they decided to build a church which should be at the service of each group on alternate Sundays. They bought a bell, started a cemetery. But the Protestants of Samnaun seemed to prefer the cemetery to the church. They dwindled away much faster than the Catholics-so fast that at last there was only one of them left, the old man who rings the bell every other Sunday in the empty church, calling the phantom parishioners to worship. He retains his rights...