Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crucifixion to young, impressionable men who, on Easter Sunday morning, would leave our ship on such a dangerous mission! That was an Easter parade I shall never forget, and ex-Chaplain Clark will forever be my hero of the Battle of Okinawa. Perhaps the combat photographers would prefer men kneeling at confession, but men in need of spiritual and physical help will always prefer a John Ruskin Clark...
...Marian Anderson. She is not only the world's greatest contralto and one of the very great voices of all time, she is also a dedicated character, devoutly simple, calm, religious. Manifest in the tranquil architecture of her face is her constant submission to the "Spirit, that dost prefer before all temples the upright heart and pure...
That last sigh was drowned out by the fanfare of Wallace's first editorial, full of brave, sometimes disjointed rhetoric. Wrote Wallace: "I prefer to accept the willingness of the Soviet leaders to think more and more in democratic terms. . . . We cannot hide the weaknesses in our democracy. If we take steps to overcome these weaknesses, then I believe the Russians, believing in the genuineness of our democracy, will move toward greater political freedom...
What few traffic signals are in operation are regarded by motorists and students alike as obstacles to the free play of individual initiative. Imbued, possibly, with Harvard's widely-heralded regard for personal idiosynerosy, they ignore all but the green lights and prefer to work out their own salvation. Considering that Harvard men make over 10,000 crossings daily of much-travelled Massachusetts Avenue plus a slightly smaller number from the Yard into the laboratory area beyond New Lecture Hall, the prevailing paucity of accidents can only be attributed to the marvelous broken-field agility which is early developed...
Lettrism, founded by Isidore Isou, an eccentric Rumanian, is a theory of poetry as "rhythmic architecture." The rapidly growing hordes of Lettrists scorn practically all non-Lettrist poets, and prefer meaningless combinations of letters to dictionary words. Founder Isou was planning last week to hire the Salle Wagram, one of Paris' biggest auditoriums, to denounce his opponents publicly. A typical Lettrist poem looks like a passage from Finnegans Wake translated into Esperanto...