Word: preferring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Should it prove necessary for you to publish this letter, I would prefer, of course, to remain anonymous...
...been quiet since March, Rightist troops under General Jose Varela seized the Leftist key stronghold, Escorihuela, prepared for an offensive against the Teruel-Sagunto highway. On the north Catalan front, brisk Leftist counterattacks regained several strategic villages and Barcelona restored contact with "the Leftist Lost Battalion" (43rd Division). "We prefer to fight where we are with our backs to the French frontier!" announced its commander...
...purpose of the three-cornered conference was to determine how best to group the employees when they vote next week on whether they prefer the A.F. of L., the inside union, or no representation at all. After mutual concessions it was agreed that there should be nine classifications...
During the last two successive nights the old-fashioned pump has got mysteriously out of order. Yard cops prefer to think that the trouble is caused by its over-use rather than malicious sabotage...
...those who prefer the second answer is Associate Director A. I. Oparin of the Biochemical Institute of the Soviet Academy of Science. For more than 15 years Dr. Oparin has studied the question in the light of present-day chemical knowledge. Between life and nonlife, in his opinion, there is no sharp boundary. He does not believe that life emerged suddenly and spontaneously from dead matter, but that it developed very gradually after a long preliminary evolution of organic but nonliving substances. In this slow unfolding an observer would have been unable to say just where life began, unless...