Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Foreign Affairs. "America, as always, prefers peace. But America does not prefer the peace of appeasement, not the surrender of our national dignity, our independence of action, our political freedom or the civilized values that we cherish...
...Kissing your hand may make you feel very good, but a diamond bracelet lasts forever." Thus wrote Anita Loos (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes} in the speakeasy 1920s. Since then the U. S. diamond market has faded away like hocked bracelets. Aiming to get it out of hock again, N. W. Ayer's advertising agency (which holds the account of Kimberley's De Beers diamond syndicate, biggest in the world) last year decided that the somewhat flawed diamond trade needed association with the higher things of life...
...congregations of the C. & C. Church do their own thinking and talking. For this independence the retiring moderator, Dr. Oscar E. Maurer of New Haven, Conn., last week took his fellow churchmen to mild task. "Much of our work," said Moderator Maurer, "fails in effectiveness because we so generally prefer to do it separately, each...
Choice No. 2 calculates excess profits as those in excess of the corporation's average rate of return in 1936-39, so long as they are not more than 10% on the invested capital. Hence all companies normally making more than 10% will probably prefer Choice No. 1. But Choice No. 2 also affords a floor of 4% below which no profit, however much improved over 1936-39, is counted as excess. Thus railroads, shipbuilders, other defense beneficiaries who have been close to or in the red, are given leeway before they feel the tax. If a company...
...typical examples, see cuts p. 37). Recently Brazilians have let him paint frescoes for Rio's Department of Education Building and panels for Brazil's pavilion at the New York World's Fair. But Rio de Janeiro's salons still deplore his Negro subjects, prefer his lacquered society portraits. To make money, Portinari still paints them...