Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...westward-looking window ("You see," she explained, "my thoughts have always looked westward"), and then allowed that back in 1934 she hadn't really "written" Mary Poppins at all. "I don't think you can just sit down and think up a Mary Poppins," said she. "I prefer to believe that she brushed by like a bird, and I put salt on her tail...
...given only when educators need to pinpoint the mental ability of someone who seems unusually gifted or retarded and so needs special guidance. They must be administered by an expert and require a session of one hour for each student. Much more common are group intelligence tests (experts prefer to call them "scholastic aptitude" tests) such as the Otis Mental Ability test, which comes in an all-picture version for Grades 1 to 4 and with multiple choice questions for Grades...
...business community, protectionism still tends to be the cozy code of the owners of small, family-held firms; they fear competition from across the border and would prefer their old cartels to Common Market tariff cuts. But the leaders of the great corporations believe that they can compete well against their foreign counterparts and like the prospect of selling more to Germans or Italians. In the business magazine Entreprise, 20 of France's most prominent executives-including Pechiney's Chairman Raoul de Vitry, Rhone-Poulenc's Chairman Wilfred Baumgartner and T.S.F.'s (electronics) Chairman Maurice Ponte...
...Hear. Some performers, like Van Cliburn and Maria Callas, have resisted the "dehumanization" of tape splicing, prefer to leave in the clinkers to preserve the spontaneous thrust of a live performance. Says one violinist-Name me the recording that can give you the electricity, the magnetic quality that you get from a great live performance. It's like hearing Laurence Olivier instead of actually seeing him play Hamlet." But soon, with new video-audio tapes now under development the home audience will see Olivier as well as hear...
...other words use these facilities just as you would use your medical facilities at home." This system has, for the most part, been successful; there are now many more hours spent by staff physicans on appointments than in the walk-in clinic. Some doctors, however, sem to prefer the clinic arrangement, and patients have not been thoroughly cooperative; about 20 per cent of the appointments for the special visits of dermatologists are not kept, for example...