Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...officials have issued a reminder that it is still possible for one to enlist voluntarily up to the date that he receives his orders for induction according to the Selective Service Act. Those who enlist may still choose among many branches of this service for the one which they prefer...
Strictly speaking, there are no real synthetic rubbers, chemically identical with natural rubber, yet artificially made. Instead there are only 1) substitutes, and 2) kindred stretchy substances which chemists prefer to call "elastomers...
...Statistics show that most Harvard men prefer to save money at the sacrifice of comfort, and most of them take the day coach instead of the sleeper," said Graham...
Artur Rubinstein looks mild but he at tacks the piano with the gusto of a man who says: "I prefer to die younger than to sniff around living." In London in 1937 he recorded the 56 Chopin mazurkas at one continuous sitting. A prodigious talker, he smokes fine cigars, was for years a lady-killing bachelor ("I am 99% interested in women"). Rubinstein's bachelorhood ended nine years ago when he married Nela Mlynarski, a Lithuanian. Before she was born her father had conducted at a War saw concert whose soloist was 15-year-old Artur Rubinstein...
...Pitcher and Mrs. Sullivan, didn't mind the additional phone calls relayed to them by the master switchboard in Lehman Hall; they are used to handling the hundreds of queries that come in daily, through mail, telegraph, phone and person, earthquake or not, and as a matter of fact prefer to receive one-track inquiries. For as Mrs. Pitcher says...