Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five Business School dining halls use student waiters and bus boys exclusively. The student waiters do their job efficiently and "many of them prefer it to other kinds of work." Dean Harris said. "The other students don't object to student waiting the slightest...
...welfare, hopes soon to get $2,500,000 more from Congress. Biggest morale prop is the cinema: the Division already has more than 100 theatres at Army posts, expects to set up many more in new camps for conscripts and National Guardsmen. Colonel Pfeil has found that soldiers prefer Westerns, Hedy Lamarr, Ann Sheridan (in that order), dislike Connie Bennett and English actors...
...feet" by swinging with Bandsman Meyer Davis at private social functions. Said she: "I do not intend to fall in love until I am 23. I believe love is something you can ward off if you wish, and I wish to. When I do fall in love I will prefer a European man, an Englishman or an Austrian. They usually are more powerful, strong, gallant and charming than American men." In Los Angeles Mrs. Josephine Dillon Gable, greying, fiftyish, dramatic coach and onetime (1923-30) wife of Clark Gable, petitioned for the right to drop her last name. Said...
Results of the P.B.H. poll on what '44 intends to be when he has graduated from Harvard show that remarkably few freshmen have chosen aviation, the brokerage business, or the ministry, but that by far the largest number prefer medicine, law, teaching, or business...
...been the impending passage of the conscription bill--and now the actual passage--which has been a major cause of the skyrocket in volunteering. That is, many of the recruits have joined up in order to "boat the draft" and get into the unit of service they prefer while they still have a free choice...