Word: preference
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...prefer to say no more...
...therefore none too soon for us to call the attention of all who are interested in boating to the many improvements that have been made at the boat-house. The facilities for accommodating oarsmen are greater than ever before. New singles are to be provided for those who prefer them to rowing in the class eights, while the system of coupon tickets for the use of the boats will prevent much confusion that has existed in previous years. New bridges are being built to the floats, improvements have been made in the boat-house itself, and more seats...
...some young lady. It occasionally happens that the Freshman does not comply with this request, and then the young professor steals into a corner and meditates upon the frivolity of life and the ingratitude of youth. For x + y has no influence here, and strange to say, young ladies prefer to dance with partners who can talk of something besides the transit of Venus or the missing link. Then, too, they do not like to experiment on the laws of falling bodies with a bad waltzer, although he may be able to give the formulas for them with the utmost...
...much prefer to enter...
...only word we have for voluntarily omitting recitation or chapel, has a number of synonyms. At Columbia they prefer to slope, at Michigan University they bolt, and in some of the western "educational institutions" they skate Mr. Black is unable to find derivations for these words. Slope is to be found in Hotten's Slang Dictionary, meaning "to decamp, run off," and is called an Americanism. Cut is found in the same place, meaning "to stop, cease to do anything...