Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beer (or coke, if you prefer) will flow freely next week when the SERVICE NEWS opens the doors of candidacy for all comers. Competitions for all three boards will open Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock at the Crimson building; all are welcome, and they may be an extra barrel of beer for the particularly welcome now Freshmen...
...rather lose the one he has than the one he hasn't.") And, incredibly enough, he was still the terror of matrons with unmarried daughters. The great bureau in his bedroom was stuffed with silk stockings, lingerie and perfume; to a lady who said she would prefer to be rewarded with a lion cub, Sickles gave a litter...
...bought control of 92-year-old Reid, Murdoch & Co. and set up Consolidated Grocers Corp. to own and run his combine. He expects it to do $100,000,000 a year of the nation's $5 to $12 billion wholesale grocery business (depending on whose figures you prefer...
...Power veto in the proposed World Security Council seemed logical to him. So did the agreement on Poland, because it recognized the fact that Stalin held the top cards. On trusteeship, this same instinct forgetting the votes count themselves made him side with Churchill and the U.S.' Navy, prefer to let each power run its own show in the Pacific and elsewhere. He felt that Mr. Roosevelt, at Yalta and on other occasions, had been too gentle, too patient and reluctant to exert U.S. power...
...charade-like world which is in many respects more rational than the one it ribs, and any amount more entertaining-a world in which children are hideously overeducated and essentially very sinister; lawyers (notably Cruikshank-like John Carradine) are crooks who will not only not stop at murder but prefer to begin with it; gangsters (William Bendix et al.) hold stockholders' meetings as punctiliously as any other big businessmen; the high priest of the mysteries exhumed by Sigmund Freud is a wild-eyed goon (Jerry Colonna) who can't stop slapping his own face. There is also...