Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they prefer to stay in the Yard, some Freshmen will be forced to live in the outside dormitories. Under the present system of tripling up double suites, etc., the Yard can hold about 1200 men approximately the expected final size of the Class...
...Arthur Salter, who edited the symposium, concludes by weighing the merits of British and U.S. radio. "The American system . . . gives the listener without license fee a greater variety of programs. It has two disadvantages which have made this country prefer a public monopoly. There are the irritating interruptions of the advertiser; and the programs tend to follow rather than to lead the public taste...
When scientists are feeling a heavy sense of their social responsibility, they prefer to dust their hands of the atom bomb: its threatened misuse they regard as a purely political matter and out of their control. But science willingly accepts responsibility for another "chain reaction": the frightening, snowballing increase of the human population has been brought about by science's contribution to human health and fertility...
Rebirth. Simon & Schuster started publishing in 1924 with $4,000 in cash and no experience, and scored their first hit with a book of crossword puzzles. Ever since they have scanned the U.S. book mart with a cold, discerning eye. They play down fiction, prefer "authoritative information" to literary excellence, and have published such spectacular moneymakers as Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People...
Generalissimo. Stalin replied that "he would prefer to have the President...