Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Appointed. Frank Gillmore, actor, father of Actress Margalo Gillmore; to be President of the Actors' Equity Association, succeeding John Emerson, playwright, husband of Anita (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) Loos...
...contracted in the public health service. The other was rabbit fever, which hunters, butchers and furriers are apt to catch from infected rabbits (TIME, June 18 & Nov. 26). Academically, rabbit fever is termed tularemia, after Tulare County, Calif., where in 1910 it was first identified. Doctors, however, prefer to call it Francis Disease, in honor of Dr. Francis, who isolated the germ (Bacterium tularense) to his own harm, malaise and inconvenience...
...they bury the hatchet? Because newspaper wars, especially long ones, cost money. Because Denver advertisers, and all advertisers, prefer two papers to four papers, especially when the two papers represent monopolies in their respective (morning and evening) fields...
...margaritifera, the pearl oyster, is a capricious mother. Sometimes her offspring is white, sometimes pink, yellow, blue, black, but unless they are grotesquely malformed, all are precious. In the Far East, cream yellow is the favorite tint because it shows to excellent advantage against the Oriental skin. Similarly, Westerners prefer pink pearls; not a deep pink, which is almost invariably muddy, but a pale rosée. Color can best be examined by placing the pearl on white cotton under a strong natural light...
...choice between the two plans is largely a matter of personal preference. Many parents would undoubtedly prefer to send their sons to an institution where gentle guidance of the proper kind is provided for them. There are, indeed, already many colleges designed to suit this taste. Harvard almost alone has placed its full reliance on the undirected initiative and judgment of the individual student. Because it believes that therein has lain Harvard's unique glory, the CRIMSON joins Professor Morison in preferring the present system of robust neglect to any alternative plan of gentle guidance...