Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ought to be just as clear that those who prefer an education to a commission are equally entitled to the resources of the University. Many undergraduates desire to make every moment of their school life count in acquiring what they regard as something of permanent value. Such undergraduates do not represent wasted ability, nor are they useless to their country. It is a pity that America's foremost university should have so easily and casually overlooked the tremendous importance to the nation of liberally educated...
...with a hawk nose, and down-slanting heavy brows that are a cartoonist's godsend, he looks, as he is, a personification of stubborn and violent will. Characteristic was his reply, as President-elect, to banqueting businessmen who proposed certain Governmental measures: "Don't advise me, I prefer to be wrong alone...
Last week the War Department announced that the Stars & Stripes will have a World War II successor. Its name: Yank. "Publisher" will be ex-Stars & Stripesman Egbert White (vice president of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn). Like its famed model, Yank will be edited by soldiers who prefer putting together a paper to wearing Sam Browne belts. Ad-less, like its predecessor, it will probably sell...
Middle-class Americans like to point with pride to the great U.S. system of public education-but when they can afford it they prefer to send their children to private schools...
...Marriner S. Eccles: "Deferred pay may be desirable [but] . . . if you are going to choose between the social security and enforced-savings plan . . . I would prefer the social security...