Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they listened and cheered him in Carnegie Hall. Last week they listened in Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Louis as the Brubeck Quartet swung through the Midwest (as part of a jazz-concert package). Not everybody likes Brubeck's intense, quiet music; a lot of Bourbon drinkers still prefer the wilder, louder jazz that thrives on full bottles. But in a matter of five years, Brubeck fans have grown from a small, West Coast clique to a coast-to-coast crowd-particularly on college campuses. What people hear and cheer in Brubeck is not only a new type of jazz...
Lesser Evil. In Homeville, Pa., when Burglar Edward Maszle was given his choice of spending 18 months in a reformatory or a penitentiary, he told the judge: "I prefer the penitentiary because there are too many young punks in reformatories who would get me in trouble...
Nehru's colleagues (many of whom went to jail with him in the long struggle for independence) and the Indian constitution (which Nehru did much to frame) are standing in Nehru's way. Congress Party moderates prefer more neutrality than Nehru now seems to envisage; some Cabinet ministers even threaten to resign if Nehru elevates the unpopular Menon to the Foreign Ministry. The constitution has a "fundamental rights" clause, which guarantees private property from seizure without good compensation...
...became active in the British Labor Party, once was even elected a London councilman. But years later, when Britain went to war against Nazi Germany, Menon joined the Communists in damning both sides (though he marched in anti-Nazi demonstrations). Once he was asked whether the Indian people would prefer British or Nazi rule. "You might as well ask a fish if it prefers to be fried in butter or margarine," he replied...
Which common stocks do Wall Street's biggest investors prefer? Last week the New York Stock Exchange compiled a list of the 15 stocks most widely held by insurance firms, pension trusts, college endowment funds and other institutional investors, found all of them were deep blue chips. At the head of the list was Standard Oil (N.J.), which was held in 506 portfolios. The others: General Electric (417 portfolios); E.I. du Pont (393); Union Carbide (391); American Telephone & Telegraph (387); General Motors (360); Gulf Oil (341); Westinghouse Electric (334); Texas Co. (319); Kennecott Copper (301); Phillips Petroleum (282); Socony...