Word: preference
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most ardent admirers often prefer to remember gruff, octogenarian Colonel Ewart Scott Grogan as he was in the old days, when rugged individualism and a respect for white-skinned authority were the stuff of which empires were made. While still an undergraduate at Cambridge, "Grogs" Grogan earned the envy of Empire Builder Cecil Rhodes by walking the 4,500-mile length of Africa from Cape Town to Cairo "just for the hell of it." "You have done what has been the ambition of every explorer," Rhodes wrote, "and it makes me the more certain that we shall complete the [Cape...
...British economy into healthy balance and end inflation might have called for expansion of national productivity on a scale such as West Germany has achieved. But British workmen, though 99% employed, adhere to their old habits of featherbedding; and many British employers shy away from free competition, and prefer obsolescence to bestirring themselves...
Describing the educational television program in effect at Penn. State University, Leslie P. Greenhill said that college students often prefer watching a televised class to sitting in a large lecture hall. They like the small room, the improved vision, the lack of distractions, and the fact that the camera directs their attention toward the lecturer, he said...
Anxious to Please. In Barcelona, Spain, the local papers carried a classified ad: "Intelligent servant seeks house with small family, no children, preferably with couple, if they are responsible, trustworthy and in good health. Prefer place outside Barcelona in mountains with pine forest, at altitude 600 to 800 meters. Don't know how to cook, preferable if housewife does cooking...
...present, Lamont closes for the weekend at 5:30 p.m. Friday, and Widener at 1 p.m. Saturday. Complaining students have made it plain that they would prefer air-conditioned Lamont as a location for weekend study. They have also pointed out that the dormitories are usually too hot and noisy for comfortable studying...