Word: preferring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discipline and wipe out the injustice that exists in far too many courses. Psychologists at Harvard have worked out an excellent system of marking for large classes. Yet with pitifully few exceptions, the other large courses have failed to take advantage of their refined and scholarly research. They prefer to go their own antiquated gait, leaving their marking system open to chance and injustice...
Brayton believes that most House men prefer to limit their participation intramural sports to one or two days each week, and that they would not wish to shoulder the burden of the intensified program suggested by the Council. "Cross country," he said "would be a farce for a man who practiced once or twice a week." It is true, however, that cross country would probably be retained along with track as a major sport...
...Foundation has set aside $100.000 for gambiae control in Brazil, and Foundation workers have already learned all the habits of the enemy. Gambiae are "domesticated insects." They breed prolifically, mature within eight days, frequent stagnant, sunlit puddles, prefer to nip their human victims indoors. In the infested parts of Brazil an anti-gambiae corps backed by the Rockefeller Foundation is being rushed into action...
...comes from the body. . . . I have been told I am a sexy person. ... I represent, I believe, the modern-day siren. A few years ago it was Mae West. It is no longer Mae West. Tell me, would you like to go out with Mae West or would you prefer to go out with...
...Automatic increases" are by no means always justified. In general, we prefer to have the University economize, if necessary, in the salaries of the highest paid ranks in order to enhance the security and provide a better living wage for its younger men, and to maintain in the higher ranks the sense of competition which is so keen in the lower...