Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Members of the Class of 1946 are finally to get a chance to fill out the traditional Album poll and speak their minds on whether they like their instructors young or old, drunk or sober, and whether they prefer their dates to be of the free and easy type or of the bespectacled Widener variety. The Poll will be distributed today in the Registration line, and will also be mailed to absent '46ers...
...Bricks." The owners of A.F.L.-manned ships got the idea. They agreed to A.F.L. demands which put A.F.L. ahead of C.I.O. again. They were influenced by two facts: 1) of the two unions they prefer A.F.L.; 2) their business is booming...
...last week the Mayor's daughter was one of the strikers (they prefer to be known as "non-starters"). The nonstarters, well aware of a nationwide shortage of 125,000 teachers, took a full-page ad in the Norwalk Hour to say that they were tired of working at "bargain-basement prices." A North Carolina school superintendent promptly wired a bid for two eighth-grade teachers...
...tough" policy, Army apologists had pointed out that many of the prisoners were combat dodgers. At a time when the need for replacements in Europe was critical, the best way to get them back to duty was to make the guardhouse so tough that they would prefer the front lines. But many of the 6,000 prisoners who passed through Lichfield's stockade were minor offenders-AWOLs by only a few hours...
...Protestants the Bible is a primer in educational work. Said one missionary: "We prefer to teach [the Indians], to let them become aware of the world outside and of the Book of God without forcing it upon them." But Catholics, men like Bishop Ruesga argue, oppose not only the placing of the Bible in Indian hands, but education itself, fearing that knowledge will lead the Indians away from, the Church of Rome...