Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Those who desire only a manual education are tempted to pilfer intellectual learning. Mental horsemanship is stimulated by horse-stealing rather than by gift horses. The pupils maintain their own discipline - they take two months' vacation each year at their own convenience-in Winter or Summer as they prefer. This plan keeps school equipment in continuous use. Coupled with this arrangement is the division of the school body into groups which use classrooms, shops and playgrounds alternately-an attractive seat-saving device. The objections voiced against the Gary system are that it teaches trades but fails to cultivate...
...Although only recently charged with the responsibility of Reclamation, I am not a stranger to the irrigation of arid lands, but prefer, however, not to suggest procedure and would not expect to advance opinions to this commission unless requested, asking only that the questions may be treated with open publicity and that I may transmit your report...
...overalls and short stockings besieged me for autographs. I publicly rebuked them, saying: 'You ladies and girls are showing very poor taste and worse judgment in coming into the town garbed as you are, without skirts or dresses. I do not want to sign my name for you and prefer not to look at you. I resent your idea of dress...
...Woman on the Jury. When friends are gathered together in the name of courtroom melodrama one is bound to grant certain of the author's requests. One cannot protest that he has met the District Attorney so many times "before that he really would prefer a change; likewise the counsel for the defense; and the Irish detective. But the woman in the jury box is a newcomer, and for her sake it was that this program of events was scheduled...
...while the rail journey is long and roundabout and a, lake steamer takes all day. Moreover, these two cities are very closely linked in business and industry, while New York to Atlantic City is a most pleasant and rapid railway journey, which any one on pleasure bent might well prefer...