Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...without ever speaking to the fellow in the room across the hall. This makes it difficult, sometimes, to borrow things like corkscrews, and has been interpreted by other Houses as a dangerously anti-social condition. Puritans regard it as a healthy, live-and-let-live attitude, and seem to prefer it to the more closely integrated House life elsewhere...
Window Shop customers don't worry about the confusion; the food is good, and the clothes, though a mite expensive, are catching to the eye. In summer, guests may eat in the garden and, according to Mrs. Broch, the students prefer this. "It gives the boys a better chance to catch up on their flirting...
Sociologist Firey declared that modern family trends have made present housing obsolete and that, as a result, large dwellings are no longer needed. The migration to the west coast and the fact that families now prefer to live alone are gradually removing the need for large dwellings...
...Would you prefer living under capitalism or Communism...
...Curley which is in closest accord with the tenets that the do-gooders generally profess is not to substitute a different organizational form for the government of Boston but to lick Mr. Curley in an election by offering a candidate and program which the voters of Boston would prefer to Mr. Curley, who, it may be noted, has done a great deal for Boston as well as for MT. Curley. This is a fact of which the voters seem to be aware, though the apostles, of the gospel of civic virtue have apparently not found it spelled out in their...