Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After 60 Rodin made his best drawings, which nowadays most critics prefer to his statues. He used to set models loose in his studio like doves, and watch them move -his pencil poised like a hawk in midair. Compared with the flying line of his drawings, some of Rodin's sculpture seems trapped in the clay...
Buster Keaton was about to be a comedy star again, for one picture at the very least. The sad-eyed Great Stone Face of the silents was making his latest comeback try in Mexico where audiences prefer their comedians pathetic. Turned 51 last week, Keaton had just finished his first Mexican picture, hoped soon to make another. He looked about the same as ever, and so did the picture: The Modern Bluebeard, or My Trip to the Moon. It had everything from life-adrift-at-sea to mistaken identity and ordeal by cops...
...Army learned that skin color makes little difference. A victim's hand bathed in green light was bitten as readily as the same hand bathed in red. Mosquitoes, probably, can see only large masses in black-&-white. They are repelled somewhat by a black or a white shirt, prefer intermediate shades. A female mosquito with eyes removed can find a victim; but with antennae removed, she goes hungry...
...club-the Polo (men only) or the Pickwick. The Polo provides two tables for volunteer snooker, a tattered copy of Punch, and a few low easy chairs in which members can order a whiskey-&-splash, and rehearse the good old days of rumrunning. The younger set prefer the Pickwick, for its jukebox...
...conditioning. Cattle have no sweat glands. On hot days, they cool themselves by the energy-consuming process of breathing hard and evaporating moisture from their lungs. When the temperature goes above 95°, they run a two-degree fever. Instead of grazing in the broiling Southern sun, they prefer to stand idly in the shade and go hungry...