Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every saloon and pool hall in the Southwest." Benton decided to paint his own version because he was confident that Cassily Adams' bloody panorama (for which Adolphus Busch Sr. paid $30,000 in 1892) was "not much of a picture." A good many barroom judges will still prefer the original...
...what they would "rather do than be a journalist," the editors offer a rash of suggestions from farmer and house carpenter to locomotive engineer and successful novelist. One wants to "be a good writer"; another would like to get some sleep; two would prefer to comb beaches; and one disgruntled citizen proclaims, "I bitterly oppose work of all kinds...
Government documents, said the Etonian editors, are rank with verbiage, due to "a popular misconception that to use long words is a sign of an expensive education. . . . We prefer a homely remark such as 'You've got some cheek, Bert' to 'Herbert, you are suffering from an inverted inferiority complex...
...eniac, its inventors say. In nearly every science and every branch of engineering, there are proved principles which have lain dormant for years because their use required too much calculation. Example: aircraft designers know how to predict air-drag theoretically, but the job takes so much figuring that they prefer to make scale models and test them-somewhat inaccurately-in expensive wind tunnels. In future, they may rely on eniac...
...military law, or whether they had merely observed them from the outside, the men agreed that it had been tough-like Lichfield, England (TIME, Dec. 31, Jan. 14). There was no question that the Army's policy had been to make detention so uncomfortable that the prisoners would prefer combat duty; the question now was whether the Continental Stockade had been so tough as to defeat the Army's purpose...