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Word: preferred (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...half years payroll, junior accounting and general office experience. Freemason, former Boy Scoutmaster, writing experience, general aptitude for mechanics, capable amateur pilot, now president of local flying club and ground school lecturer, good public speaker, excellent physique, like people and know how to get along with them. Prefer connection with up and coming company in aviation, but will consider any opportunity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 23, 1939 | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...prefer," says Sassoon, at 52, "to remember my own gladness and good luck, and to forget, whenever I can, those moods and minor events which made me low-spirited and unresponsive." His happy memories are really a tribute to the optimistic spirit of upper-class Englishmen's pre-War world. That spirit Siegfried Sassoon conveys exactly. Defending it, The Old Century is his testament that the worst that can happen in peace is idyllic compared to the best that can happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Relatively Idyllic | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

Throughout the entire address the theme was his conviction that the world's ruling classes prefer Fascism to social reform. With reference to this he stated "If the masses are content to be trampled upon, there will be no Fascism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HICKS SEES CAPITALISM GONE | 1/5/1939 | See Source »

...Nazi Fatherland. The Ukrainian masses have also long rebelled against "foreign" rule. They do not like Dictator Stalin, King Carol II of Rumania or their Polish masters. Because they were under German domination for only the eight closing months of the World War, Nazis hope that they prefer German tutelage as the least of evils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: What Will Mr. Stalin Say? | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

...averse to military spending, such professionals as Messrs. Craig and Leahy of course prefer professional planning. In the tremendously increased Army Air Corps, antiaircraft defenses and other armaments projected by Corcoran & Co., they foresee fundamental changes in balance between Army and Navy, between related branches of the Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Rearmament v. Balderdash | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

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