Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pressly says, mark the approaching end of the old country doctor who worked alone. And a good thing, too, he thinks. For the past six years, Dr. Pressly has had two doctors working for him on salary. He has a hard time keeping them because they prefer the "easier life" of the big-city specialist. He has two nurses, a maid and bookkeeper. His brick-veneer, well-equipped clinic building, which started out with seven rooms...
...French have protested this decision violently. Charles de Gaulle has stated clearly that he would prefer to junk the Marshall Plan entirely, rather than have the Ruhr in German hands. French Communist claims that "pro-German cartelsympathizers" have put the deal across now look all too correct to non-Communists in both France and the world outside. The Queuille government has also expressed dismay, but in a necessarily feebler tone, since it is trying to work in harmony with the other Western nations. Battered by left and right, the French government has been gravely embarrassed, and its shaky grasp...
...their booking arm has tightened its hold, the Shuberts' producing arm has become almost completely lax. This year they have produced only one show. They prefer-and are usually able-to fill their theaters with hits by other producers, turn out their own shows only when there are not enough to go around. Now, with theaters scarce, they get rentals of 35% of gross receipts, and up. With all their houses occupied by hits or near-misses, Shubert theaters are taking in money at the rate of $60 million a year...
Madar handed in his report, a 15 pageopus including diagrams, the Sunday before the Harvard-Dartmouth game. That's probably what he'll be doing next year, too. How does he like Cambridge? Fine except for one thing. Mr. and Mrs. Madar are enthusiastic bowlers--but they prefer duck plus and so far they haven't been able to locate a single one of those in captivity in the Boston-Cambridge area...
Dazed but unrepentant, Broadway Columnist Ed Sullivan began and ended a piece by asking with a silly smirk: "Wha' Hoppened?" The Alsop brothers, who had considerably more reason to ask, airily wired their editors that "these particular reporters prefer their crow fricasseed...