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Word: preferably (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Women can purchase tickets from the H. A. A. which entitle them to a towel and a bathing suit. They may wear the suit provided or bring one of their own if they prefer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HAA Backs Mixed Summer Natation | 7/8/1942 | See Source »

...flex his muscles. This vicarious satisfaction has made Superman Paramount's most popular and profitable short, despite the $65,000 it costs to make each cartoon. So popular is the muscular moron that 114 female artists at the Famous studio recently answered a questionnaire asking whether they would prefer Superman for a husband or a boy friend. All said: boy friend. Explained one: "Trying to live with so super a husband might be awfully fatiguing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 6, 1942 | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

Lone Wolf. Many political columnists prefer to run with the partisan pack, but Clapper declares: "In this business you've got to be a kind of lone wolf." He has refused to endorse any group, and he belongs to no political party. A pre-Hearst discoverer and longtime friend of Alf Landon, Clapper did not mince his criticism when Landon swung to the Old Guard in the 1936 campaign. He is still Landon's friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Everyman's Columnist | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

...prefer to date college girls? working girls? debutantes?" brought these answers among others. "When they go out with me, they're all working girls . . . How do you classify Yale undergraduates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PIN-BALL, CLASSICAL MUSIC, WELLESLEY WILL ATTRACT '46 | 6/26/1942 | See Source »

...help a great deal. The Houses, into which Freshmen are moving for the first time, will make arrangements for men of 1946 to meet and to cement some sort of class solidarity. All of these social events are entirely voluntary. If you want to go, then go. If you prefer to stay home and make your own friendships, that's your privilege...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: " . . . With Fear and Trembling" | 6/25/1942 | See Source »

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