Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...core of the problem is manpower. Courses cannot be given without teachers, and most members of the faculty quite naturally prefer to restrict their teaching to the fall and spring terms and their vacationing to the sticky summer. Nonetheless, in the face of the demand for a summer term, some men, such as Professor Hooton, have seen their way clear to teaching three terms in a row: a few more Faculty Richards could have made the difference between the current sluggish summer program and a fully satisfactory...
...obscure." "What do you think of this passage?" he scornfully asked a Shakespearean enthusiast: " 'I would as lief be thrust through a quicket hedge as cry Pooh to a callow throstle.'" The enthusiast explained: "A great lover of feathered songsters, rather than disturb the little warbler, would prefer to go through a thorny hedge. But I can't for the moment recall the passage." Said Gilbert: "I have just invented it, and jolly good Shakespeare...
...Peter kin Papers'). Family and friends added one ingredient after another, hoping to make Mrs. Peterkin's coffee taste better. A lady of wisdom finally suggested that Mrs. Peterkin just pour a fresh cup. That solution was not apt to occur to Congressmen-they usually prefer something more laborious...
...cold, windless and grey, and its people beset with chaotic politics, strikes and shortages (see FOREIGN NEWS). Last week many a Parisian found a refuge from these storms in the sparkling new Galerie des Carets. There hung the paintings of a man whom some conservative critics have come to prefer to Picasso. He was monkish old Georges Rouault, whose fat, smoldering judges, jeweled kings, whores, clowns and solitary Christs grow richer and stranger year by year. They looked not like paint but hot coals, caked angrily into patterns by a muscle-bound man with a trowel...
...about its low place on the newsstands (third among Manhattan's four morning papers), but it occasionally deplores the low state of culture that causes that fact. Last week one of the Times's editors preached a little sermon on why four out of five New Yorkers prefer the tabloids at breakfast...