Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dingy printing shops in lower Manhattan, U.S. Secret Service agents last fortnight "discovered" the work of a most gifted artist. The artist himself was not on hand; indeed, he will prefer to remain nameless as long as he can, for he is responsible for one of the prettiest feats of counterfeiting since Jim the Penman...
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Home from New Guinea, Lieut. Colonel Jane Clement, of Army Nurse Corps, told a tale of trade: in return for rescuing flyers downed in the jungles, the tonsorially minded natives are supplied with peroxide to bleach their hair...
...step right up, ladeez and gentlemen, for the greatest show on earth. See the thin man, the fat lady, the India rubber man, Jo-Jo the dog-faced boy, and Gargantua, who, when last week was confronted by three Harvard men said, "I prefer peanuts...
Student groups with the life-long ambition to see a municipal fire or police department's H. Q. may do so during the current "Civic Week," being staged throughout the City of Cambridge, according to a recent announcement outlining visiting opportunities. "We would prefer that this be done under the direction of a teacher or master," the statement continues...
N.M.P. Y. M.D. The Suva degree is N.M.P.-Native Medical Practitioner. With it goes a Government salary and the right to practice within the Western Pacific Islands. Many N.M.P.s are so good that Europeans prefer them to white doctors (in the islands there are about 20 white doctors, 200 N.M.P.s for 1,000,000 people). But N.M.P.s' chief job is to care for their own people. Native diseases are bad: yaws (a childhood skin disease caused by a spirochete), malaria and blackwater fever, filariasis (worm infestation which frequently ends as elephantiasis). The imported diseases are often worse: diphtheria, gonorrhea...