Word: preference
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the U.S. is able to occupy some of the outlying islands, Truk undoubtedly will be subjected to air assault. Naval and land assault is another matter. The Navy may prefer to move against the upper Solomons, New Britain and New Guinea to the southwest, against Makin and other Gilbert Islands in the southeast, and thus finally to immobilize Truk and bottle the Japs within their bits of heaven...
Next best is "enriched bread" in which the vitamins, often synthetic, are added to white flour. This is much better than pure white bread, but is often inadequate because the added vitamins are insufficient in quantity and some may be missing. "If you prefer white bread," says Dr. Sherman, "be sure it is enriched...
...means a perfect book, but in some respects it may be a great one. It will mean little to those who use politics to butter their daily bread and not much to those for whom politics is the breath of life. But it will mean much to those who prefer to be human beings despite all politics. They may be appalled by the price. In Ignazio Silone's judgment, the price has not changed since Gospel days: he who would gain his own soul must first lose the world...
Bulwer-Lytton was Tauchnitz's first author. Soon the library published Dickens, Scott, Charlotte Bronte, Macaulay, Thackeray, Carlyle, Trollope, George Eliot. Later it published Thomas Hardy, Bernard Shaw, John Galsworthy. Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Zane Grey, Kathleen Norris were among its most popular U.S. writers. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes sold 100,000 copies...
Casey's confident backers say their boy will get plenty of votes from labor, New Dealers, and Willkie Republicans who prefer him to Lodge, and from Catholics to whom a Massachusetts birth-control referendum will be an added reason for voting...