Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Second, at least three-quarters of the students polled would prefer to have more male teachers. Although this sounds like a minor point, it would undoubtedly make the classes much more interesting and lead to a more natural atmosphere...
Harvard evokes a mixed reaction from the Wellesley girls. The questionnaire drew such descriptions as "stuffy phonies, pompous, self-centered, neurotic, and holier-than-thou," although a good three-quarters of the girls prefer dating boys from Harvard than any other school. Despite these unkindnesses, Wellesley girls did have some more respectful things to say about Harvard: "More intelligent, less standard preppy, more urban, individualistic, sophisticated, more confidence...
About 80 per cent of these girls are involved in some extra-curricular activity. One-third say they date at least once during the week; and although 60 per cent would prefer to date several boys at the same time, a full 50 per cent say they have "steady" boy friends...
...down a long line of reasons, any one of which is sufficient to explain why, even when the subject is broached, as in the Howard speech, it barely makes its way into the press accounts, being an issue, as the Economist noted at the time, that liberals prefer to "skirt...
Presumed Dead. Audrey Bruce Currier, 33, daughter of U.S. Ambassador to Britain David K. E. Bruce and granddaughter of Banker-Industrialist Andrew Mellon, who inherited a major share of the family fortune, wasted none of it on the jet-set scene, prefer- ring to live quietly and, with her husband Stephen Currier, 36, search out philanthropic causes for their Taconic Foundation, which last year distributed $2,400,000; lost with her husband on Jan. 17 when their chartered plane went down somewhere between Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands...