Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Newspapers prefer optimistic headlines...
Confused, sales-happy impresarios explain these unexpected invitations to the dance three ways: 1) Sponsors, well aware of the war-narrowed pattern of U.S. life, now prefer programs with established audiences to new gambles; 2) advertising agencies have not got the manpower to build new shows; 3) rather than a shot with unproved talent left by the draft, sponsors turn to a sustainer with known talent...
...Prizewinner from Norway, declared that the thing about the U.S. that astonished her most was its women's clubs. "It would never occur to a European woman," said she, "to have lunch with a lot of other women, and not a male in sight. I must say I prefer mixed company...
Some 30 years ago young Novelist E. M. Forster sat with his friend, Philosopher Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, in the palace of the Maharaja of Chhatarpur and heard the nabob cry: "Tell me, Mr. Dickinson, where is God? Can Herbert Spencer lead me to him, or should I prefer George Henry Lewes? Oh when will Krishna come and be my friend? Oh Mr. Dickinson...
However on-station residents will be required to log out with the Duty Office if they expect to remain ashore any evening after 2300. Arrangements will be made next term for those who prefer to mess off-station to pay at Cowie only for the meals consumed there...