Word: preferred
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...censors, 100 middle-aged gentlemen with blue pencils, sit in a room in the basement. Copy goes down to them by pneumatic tube. Cable dispatches they read and then pass on by teletype to cable offices. For correspondents who prefer to do their work in their own offices (and for laymen sending private messages) another 100-odd censors are on duty at the telegraph and cable companies...
...women would like things to happen swiftly and largely-but, the things they would have happen being so different from the things likely to happen, most of them prefer slow, small lives to naked contact with the insufficiencies that their times and their husbands represent." Thus expatriate Poet Laura Riding compresses the theme of Lives of Wives, and invites readers to take another good look at history...
...meeting for political reasons best known to the Soviet Government were 50 Russian delegates, including the head of the Congress, famed Professor Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov, who is out of favor in Russia because he does not believe in the long-outmoded inheritance of acquired characteristics (TIME, June 26). Communists prefer to believe in the inheritance of acquired characteristics. Called home from the meeting were all the European delegates. Professor Gunnar Dahlberg of Sweden was the only one who stubbornly refused to leave...
...This is not going to be easy or pleasant. As to my own position, the work of Senator from Ohio is extremely interesting and I prefer it to any other office. I will not run away from a harder job, but whether I am a candidate for any other office is entirely up to the Republicans of Ohio...
...undertakers (who prefer to be called "morticians," call their places of business funeral "parlors" or "homes") have long offered complete funerals for a flat fee. Last week in San Francisco, one Patricia Morgan, onetime Manhattan model and proprietor of a "charm" school, offered weddings similarly packaged. Her "Wedding Home" was aimed at business girls who, without church or family background, "have the same yearning as society belles to wear a bridal veil and are just as much entitled to." Miss Morgan priced her nuptials on a sliding scale, beginning with a curt ceremony in street clothes...