Word: prefering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other departments have expressed doubt or indifference about a Non-Honors program. Some fields, such as philosophy, don't have the manpower and others, such as Economics and Government, prefer to wait for student interest to show itself...
...voting machine in the U.S. pavilion includes the question, "To which of these U.S. universities would you prefer to send your son?" Harvard led by three to one at the beginning of the month, despite the fact, as a hostess from Oklahoma noted, that "all summer the Yale boys have been coming along trying to change the figures on the board...
...auditors with a taste for genuine esoterica can begin their morning in the Robinson Seminar Room where Architectural Sciences 253 takes a full two hours to probe the mysteries of Reinforced Concrete, a three part course examining the respective problems of slabs, beams and columns. Those foregoing breakfast may prefer a broadening hour in Pierce 226, during which the theoretical chemistry of coagulation, corrosion, and sludge digestion are surveyed in Engineering 271a, guaranteed to make undergraduates flush with excitement...
...days De Gaulle was subjected to the curious experience of hearing irate Africans loudly demand something he had already offered them. At Conakry, in French Guinea, firebrand Premier Sékou Touré, orating to a crowd before an obviously annoyed De Gaulle, shouted that "We prefer poverty in independence to richness in slavery." (But Touré also promised that Guinea would vote yes to the constitution.) And at Dakar, restive capital of Senegal, De Gaulle's motorcade into town was beset by jeering demonstrators calling for "immediate independence." For the first time during his African tour, the stony...
What do you think of Arkansas and Governor Faubus now? Your previous attacks on a man who struggled to make something of himself in the American way were abominable. You even ridiculed his speech (which I greatly prefer to Brooklynese...