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Word: prefered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Western Republicans have approached the restive electorate rather gingerly this year. Rather than Watergate and inflation, they prefer to talk about local issues and question the competence of their hard-charging Democratic opponents. As a result, Republicans seem to be mustering a late surge of support, but it comes too late to affect more than marginal races...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Coming Down the Stretch to Nov. 5 | 11/4/1974 | See Source »

Kirkland's House Committee is polling students to xdetermine if they would prefer locking the entries or the main door. After an attempted rape two weeks ago, Kirkland improved the lighting in its main and annex courtyards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houses Begin Locking Doors To Stop Crime | 10/29/1974 | See Source »

...overwhelming majority of Harvard-Radcliffe undergraduates favor sex-blind admissions carried out by a single admissions office, and more than half say they would prefer an equal number of men and women in the College regardless of the selection procedure, a Crimson survey indicates...

Author: By Richard J. Meislin and Mark J. Penn, S | Title: Students Favor 1:1 Ratio, Sex-Blind Admissions | 10/25/1974 | See Source »

...Prefer Current Quad Ratio...

Author: By Richard J. Meislin and Mark J. Penn, S | Title: Students Favor 1:1 Ratio, Sex-Blind Admissions | 10/25/1974 | See Source »

...small-town Connecticut bandmaster who'd fought in the Civil War, and who taught his son to rely on his own ears and himself. Charles Ives went to Yale, took some music courses but didn't like his teachers' insistence on doing things in traditional ways, continued to prefer out-of-tune psalms sung at camp meetings to romantic orchestrations played in concert halls, went out and became an insurance agent and then a partner in his own insurance agency. During the day Ives sold insurance, managed the firm, worked on a manual explaining how to induce potential customers...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: A Salesman's Centennial | 10/24/1974 | See Source »

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