Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little experience yet available for expression. They need a free medium in which they have scope simply as the young to annoy by being clever and seriously as craftsmen to invent, explore, and anticipate. Those who have been unhappy about the undergraduate work in the Advocate presumably would not prefer disadvantageous competition with the commercial magazines or the kind of local-color article on Radcliffe that graced the Progressive a couple of years...
...Fleet, he is known as tough but rated a good man to sail with when trouble looms. "In normal times," commented one officer recently, "I might like to be under someone a little easier than Admiral Hart, but in times like this in the Far East, I would much prefer to be under...
...Many fabricators would prefer a lightweight metal, if it is as cheap as magnesium promises to be, to any plastic...
Landis attacked what he called "Maginot Line thinking," asserting that a continual defensive attitude constitutes a danger to our democratic concepts. "Defense' is a bag word; I prefer to use 'offense'," he stated. An aggressive attitude toward the enemies of democracy, and an aggressive policy of defense, which "then becomes "offense'," is the surest way to defeat Axis aggression, Landis concluded...
...Minister nor his Government was interested. Since then the U.S. has frequently expressed anxiety over Finland's course. The facts, as usual, favored Cordell Hull, and to him they were clear: either the Finnish Government is no longer a free -agent of its people, or the people themselves prefer alliance with a power that endangers the independence of all nations of the world, including Finland...