Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with corruption. Northern Ireland has a balanced budget and a neat profit of ?1,227,000 while Southern Ireland has a deficit of ?2,573,000. As for the "Divide and Rule" idea it seems that no one remembers that division came first and the ruling afterwards. Would TIME prefer civil war? We once fought to make the South remain a part of the U.S.A. What independence did we grant to those dissenters? Is Ireland from its position not more vital to England? England buys 80% of Ireland's exports and furnishes 60% of her imports. It looks...
...generic word for a generic product, "nylon" looks like a permanent addition to the language. Most manufacturers prefer to trade-mark their courage. Paradox is that Du Pont (and Webster's) still capitalize Cellophane, a far more generic word to the man-in-the-street...
...served Germany well. Joachim von Ribbentrop (whom Göring hates) keeps relations smooth with Russia. But in Italy, where Germans are not too well liked, it is Göring who keeps things running with the Mussolinis. (He named his daughter after Edda Ciano.) Neutral diplomats prefer to talk to Göring, rather than to listen to Hitlerian tirades. And the fact that the British Foreign Office always found him willing to listen accounts for the frequency with which his name is mentioned in talk of a new German regime, should Hitler fall (or quit) without pulling...
...first Lucas was wild and mischievous, and Farmer Smith had to thrash him repeatedly for "dirty animal habits in and about the house." As a wild boy, he had eaten crickets, ostrich eggs, prickly pears, green mealies and wild honey. He continued to prefer this sort of food to a civilized diet, once devoured 89 prickly pears at a sitting. But he became gradually civilized as he learned to speak and understand English. He showed himself polite, obedient, fond of children, a devoted nurse. In the fields he was a prodigious worker, and Farmer Smith eventually came to regard...
...deal that he worked out. It offered an inducement for each company and for every class of stockholder of each. To Curtiss-Wright it meant getting rid of its troublesome "A" stock-by exchanging each share of "A" for ¼ share of a new 5% $50 cumulative preferred plus 1.8 shares of common, or (if "A" stockholders prefer) for ½ share of new preferred and 1/5 of a share of common. To "A" stockholders it meant an assured dividend and preferred position in liquidation (neither of which they had before), plus a higher conversion price, greater voting power. To holders...