Word: preference
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peculiarly fitted to act as social elevator boy in modern society. Parents who seeks paths by which their children can transcend the increasingly rigid stratification of American society have discovered that education is practically the only road to the top. Only in the schools can the youngster learn to prefer competition and success to complacency and group approval. And only by succeeding in school can he convince the marketplace that he has the talents it demands. Indeed, the symbolic degree has become so important that even those born to the purple have trouble retaining their inherited status without this symbol...
Most women today are not interested in abolishing sex. They do not want to compete with men, but prefer to love them, marry them, and have children...
...have the right freely to profess their own religious faith in any individual or collective form, to proselytize on its behalf and to perform in private and in public acts of worship, provided that the rites are not contrary to public morals."* But mayors and police chiefs seem to prefer the earlier Fascist police laws of 1929 and 1930, under which non-Catholic places of worship must have permits from local authorities and non-Catholic pastors may not preach until recognized as ministers by the Ministry of the Interior...
...Freshman Debate Team last night convinced a Wellesley audience of 60 girls that "women do not prefer death to dishonor." Walker J. Blakey '62 and Terry W. Schwab '62 spoke for the Yardlings...
Section men in Government 1 tend to prefer sections containing both Harvard and Radcliffe students rather than homogeneous groups, Hoffmann noted...