Word: preference
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...buyers (no effort is being made to take plants that are not willingly sold), but lack of shipping is apt to limit that sharply. Nonetheless, where a U.S. plant can provide an essential commodity that would otherwise have to be continuously shipped in manufactured form, U.S. authorities would now prefer to send the whole plant in the first place...
This part of the show in itself makes this Corot exhibition an important artistic event. For those who prefer Corot's later period, there are a score of vaporous twilight landscapes...
...thing the synthetics have in common : none is really rubber. Natural rubber has never been duplicated in the laboratory, probably never will be. Chemists prefer to call the synthetic rubbers "elastomers," a new class of materials, and an industry as big and diverse as plastics and synthetic textiles. Special properties can be built to order in elastomers because their molecules are tailor-made. They are put together in different designs by combining various small unit groups of atoms into polymers (from the Greek: "many parts"). The chief units: butadiene, acetylene, ethylene, styrene...
With the possible exception of Joseph Clark Grew, there is no one as well qualified to explain the Japanese to Americans as Hugh Byas. Ambassador Grew spent ten years in Japan, Hugh Byas spent 36. Both loved the Japanese and were apparently loved by them. Both prefer facts to hysteria...
...talks are in keeping with the Harlow personality, however. Although he does prefer scoreboard triumphs to the moral victories his boys were piling up earlier this season, the spirit of his teams does mean almost as much to him as the final score. Harlow likes to win and he likes to fight, and he likes his football players to be the same. Judging from the newspaper comments of the '42 eleven, he has succeeded in this respect. And also judging from newspaper men, he is a tremendous coach as well as fine fellow. To quote the assistant again...