Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chief of these was France, with a debt of $4,210,000,000, next in size to Great Britain's. Second was Italy, with a debt of $2,138,000,000. Third was Belgium, with $480,000,000. It had been intimated that the latter two would prefer to have France settle first. The three gentlemen frowned...
When American college men decide to study abroad after graduation, they migrate instinctively to Oxford, and to a lesser extent, to Cambridge University. They scarcely ever go to the interesting little French universities, where they would come into close contact with a foreign people, but seem to prefer Oxford, which is not very much different from the better type of American colleges...
...function is not to write the University catalog, although you may begin to suspect so. The little matter of review, which I have already mentioned, is in itself sufficient to prevent my filling that office. As to what my function may be, I prefer to leave the reader in doubt. Mere impressions, such as I have recorded here, may possibly have some value. But the masterful words of the professor in Property come back to me, and I quote them in conclusion: "Gentlemen! Gentlemen! Mr. Doe is drooling. Kindly draw the sheet over...
...prefer to attribute this awful vagueness to inefficiency rather than malice aforethought. The tutors are apparently quite as much in the dark as the seniors, and quite as much harrassed. Some say "Saturday", some "Monday", and some frankly say, "God knows when...
...with the facts in the case, there can be only two explanations of the attitude taken by the writer; either gross ignorance of the facts involved, or partisan motivation. I cannot believe the writer has been naive enough to show partisanship in an attack on partisanship; and, as I prefer to be charitable, I must assume the former alternative. To anyone who has followed the matters discussed by the writer, it is quite evident that he is ignorant of several things...