Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, would just as soon), they would, on the whole, like to do so sooner rather than later. One of their reasons is that, if Britain falls, the U. S. Navy's biggest potential enemy will soon be in the Atlantic. Therefore they would, in cold-blooded terms, prefer to liquidate the fleet of their No. 2 potential enemy, Japan, before they have to face a second threat. In war undertaken in order to keep Japan out of Dutch and British possessions in the Orient, the U. S. would almost certainly have Britain as an ally, a fact which...
...tain told his own country. He made only suggestions to the nation which will, unless defeated, give France its actual Order when it gets around to it. "Doubtless Germany . . . can choose between the traditional peace of suppression and a wholly new peace of collaboration. Germany may prefer the new method to the misery, strife, repressions and conflicts of peace in the old manner. . . . First choice of course rests with the victor. . . .If all roads are closed to us, we shall know how to suffer and wait." Thus France knelt to her conqueror...
...season descends upon us. The first 100 words of any Bruin game story in a Boston paper deals with sauerkraut. Then, gradually through a complicated process of reasoning, the reader is brought up to the point where he can find out what kind of tollet paper the Kraut wingmen prefer...
Harvard football is based on the assumption that there are still a few deluded young men in this country who want to be capable athletes and scholars alike. They even prefer gaining an education to gaining yardage on the gridiron. Naturally, every preference in admissions should be given to the scholar-athlete. If a man has both high marks and a good athletic record in high school, be is the perfect type of raw material for both the Harvard football coaches and the professors. The scholar-athlete is the best type of man not because he can help Harvard...
...they don't think so much of the budget. They prefer not to talk things like that any more. In fact, they prefer not to talk at all, unless it is about ways to get more planes, tanks, ships, and men. People like this are asking for the leadership of America, and incidentally, of Harvard. For the most part, they are getting...