Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Would Mrs. Whipple prefer the adjective "exclusive...
...while, and there are always several bandit rats (Independents) scampering around the floor and peeking out with one eye from behind the radiators and garbage cans. Nobody minds much, but once in a while the staff sneaks around with overturned wastebaskets and rounds them all up. Most of them prefer to be in cages anyway, where they sleep in big piles to deep warm...
...advice or find an anesthetist who agrees with them. An Army surgeon, however, is seldom free to choose his anesthetist. But he still remains boss in the operating room, specifying the kind of anesthesia to be used. Even though the anesthetist's experience and training lead him to prefer a different technique, he must follow orders...
...results may be unhappy. An Army surgeon may, for example, prefer spinal anesthesia. His anesthetist may be skilled in ether and other gases, but not wholly familiar with the often complicated nerve-blockings he is called upon to perform with the spinal and regional anesthesia. Such disagreement increases the patient's risks (deaths from anesthesia are by no means unknown). Meanwhile, the quality of anesthesia suffers, and the professional anesthetist is reduced to a mere technician...
...changed vastly. Thus during the months immediately preceding or following December 7, there were none of the Frantic efforts to train undergraduates which characterized the years 1916-17. Instead the College is assuming the responsibility of training the student for military duty, the armed forces now prefer to remove the student from college and train him themselves...