Word: preference
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British newspapers report from time to time that some Britons in the U.S. theater and on the U.S. radio are doing more for their pockets than for the war. Britons in Britain prefer the way of Ben Lyon and Bebe Daniels...
SLIGHT TIME OVERSIGHT IDENTIFIED HOME OF EVERY CREWMAN IN "CHENNAULT'S PAPPY" [TIME, NOV. 30] EXCEPT CAPTAIN ROBERT C. WILLIAMS, PILOT FROM FLINT. WE ARE AS PROUD OF BOB AS WE ARE OF OUR EXCELLENT WAR GOODS. HOWEVER, IF CHOICE MUST BE MADE, WE WOULD PREFER OUR FIGHTERS AND OUR ENEMIES, RATHER THAN TIME, TO HAVE REASON TO REMEMBER FLINT...
...There are two implications: in panel one, the need of Western Hemisphere defense against suicidal Europe; in panel two, the thesis that we in America prefer to live by the philosophy of education and kindliness. The only personality I have permitted myself to indulge in is Goebbels, represented by the clubfooted horse...
...overnight into a center of art and enlightenment. However, if there is anything I can do. . . ." But the British maestro whipped the year-old Brooklyn Symphony into a little demonstration of Mozart and Beethoven that stole the musical show from the neighboring New York Philharmonic under Artur Rodzinski. "I prefer the smaller orchestras," sniffed Sir Thomas, "because they're better behaved. I find they're not possessed of this overweening self-satisfaction...
...licenses will be respected "pending further study," but "restrictive provisions governing production, use, price and market area in any license" will be thrown out. As an inducement to exclusive licensees not to retain their monopoly (for which they usually have to pay stiff royalties) Crowley suggested that they might prefer nonexclusive licenses immediately, royalty-free...