Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...election would seem to prove that the majority of voters prefer a wartime economy (with their sons driving tanks instead of trucks or plows) and higher taxes rather than an era of peace which has brought greatly reduced taxes, the abolishment of war, and has added 10 million citizens to the Social Security rolls. What the Eisenhower Administration has accomplished is a marvel of efficiency . . . Are we to see the plans and program of President Eisenhower ruined so that we may return to another Democratic regime in 1956? And to another war, as we have had in every Democratic Administration...
...those who prefer it, Lamont also offers a CREMATION SERVICE: "Through the purifying process of fire, this body now becomes transformed into the more simple and ultimate elements of our universe...
This fall, by means of a grant from the Combined Charities Drive of last year, one student, Gunther Rischer, of Dunster House, has been brought here. Bicks would prefer to make this a permanent venture, not relying on Combined Charities funds for it. The new committee might also begin a program of information exchange between United States and European universities and student councils...
Nevertheless, most graduate students feel that these difficulties, though real, are largely specious. Between seminar reports, they may disparage their fate as that of the rejected, overworked, intellectual, but they will at the same time admit that there is no other undertaking they would even faintly prefer...
Many faculty members personally prefer the all-around man with the well-developed personality, but there is a strong minority which echoes the judgment of George B. Kistiakowsky, Abbot and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry: "the well-rounded personality is usually versed only in mediocrity...