Word: preferring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Readers of a weekly like TIME expect facts. They prefer to have these presented with tact and dignity. They do not want cheap gossip and unsubstantiated information...
...emerged from nonliving matter by some pregnant combination of chemical circumstances; 3) life was transported to earth in meteorites or some other carrier, from somewhere else in the universe. Quite satisfactory to many people is the first answer, which renders further inquiry into the problem superfluous. Most biologists, however, prefer to make a choice between the second and the third...
...people's taste is pretty good, Proven Pictures' president says. They go for historical pictures, clean comedy, and musicals; they frown on Westerns, G-man pictures, and violent death in any from. Their favorite comedians are the Ritzes; for sheer drama they prefer Paul Muni and Barbara Stanwyck. But Jeanette MacDonald's "Naughty Marietta" holds the record; it has come back fifteen times...
...heathen have their idols, the great American public has its heroes, but the majority of college students prefer legends. Outstanding among the three centuries of legends upon which Harvard can look back are those pertaining to its famous teachers--including such men as Dean Briggs, Kitty, Copey, and Whitehead. Recent educational trends have diverted emphasis from teaching for teaching's sake into channels of research; and although this shift has undoubtedly tended to produce more and better scholars, it has at the same time caused a dearth of "legendary" teachers. Granted that research is the basic element in the teacher...
...question of whether Radcliffites would prefer a "perfect 34" or a Phi Beta Kappa key, answers said, "what, flatchested? I'd rather be a perfect 36!' and "This question is silly because I am a perfect 34 and I expect a Phi Beta Kappa key next year...