Word: preference
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prefer Hemingway's version, but I'm mighty glad I read it first. That reviewer ought to be used for tuna bait...
...Christians must welcome the just rebuke meted out to us by Gilbert K. Smith in his well-reasoned defense [Sept. 8] of Jelke and his playboy and playgirl friends. How foolish of us to prefer an attitude to sex which is not in keeping with "sound economic activity in this cold, commercial world." My only criticism of his otherwise pleasantly logical argument is that he appears to show signs of some of the narrowness which he so rightly discerns in us. Surely the dope peddler's vocation is just as commercially sound as the pimp's. The teenager...
...would use the money to remodel his business property. In the first few days some 31 Elgin businessmen applied for loans, and it looked as if downtown Elgin might get a completely new look. Said Banker Kewley, whose profits on the loans will hardly cover his bookkeeping costs : "People prefer to shop in an attractive store, and more business in town means more business...
...editors of this newspaper are among those who prefer Ike ... A couple of weeks ago in an editorial we urged Ike to get up and get going in this campaign. One reason that prompted us was that we had noted that Mr. Stevenson was making more hay and getting what could be considered a better play on our own front pages...
...dollar shopping centers at Wilmington, Chicago and Los Angeles. Last week, in a hunt for profitable new fields of real-estate investment, it spent $45,000 for advertising in a nationwide survey to determine i) where elderly, retired couples plan to live, and 2) what kind of housing they prefer (i.e., small homes, apartment kitchenettes, or what) When the returns are in, I.D.S. hopes to reach a lucrative new market that no big investor has yet bothered about...