Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five-man majority, Justice Hugo Black proclaimed eloquently and forcefully the wisdom of separating church & state. Cried Black: "Neither a state nor the Federal Government . . . can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion over another. . . . No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions ... whatever form they may adopt...
Shanghai's realistic firemen, who seldom risk confronting a spreading blaze but prefer to douse burned-out wreckage in its wake, last week proved as sensitive as they are sensible. In consequence of repeated (though unsubstantiated) charges that they demanded goldbar bribes to answer a New Year's Day call, the city's 514 fire fighters resigned in a body...
...donors prefer that the selected Fellows, who will each receive a 500 pound grant, be "recent college graduates of distinction or students who will receive their bachelor's degree with distinction before June 1, 1947." Applicants must be unmarried and "prepared to devote their whole time to the objects of the Fellowship...
...international action if they break the rules. Until the U.S. Government is sure that control is defined in those terms, the U.S. has no intention of giving up its head start in atomic development. The Russians apparently are even more distrustful; although they now lack The Bomb, they prefer to rely on their chance of getting it and on the improbability that the U.S. will use it meanwhile, rather than submit to the kind of international inspection and control the U.S. wants...
Colombian Chicago. Even today, Antioquia and Caldas send several thousand emigrants a year into the Valle del Cauca. The Vallenses themselves prefer the valleys and leave the slopes to the immigrants from the north. To the southeast, Antioquian peasants are settling the virgin mountainsides of Tolima. In the north, they have overflowed into Choco and Bolivar, and control much of Bolivar's cattle industry. Of the 3,000,000 Colombians of Antioquian descent, only 1,300,000 live in Antioquia...