Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There French & British fishermen swapped langouste (which Frenchmen prefer) for homard (which Englishmen prefer). Sometimes they robbed each other's lobster pots instead, fought pitched battles. But not until last week did the microscopic Minquiers Islands become an international trouble spot...
...year approaches its close, I prefer to particularly think (sic) of the boys who are to be rewarded for their interest and effort by a recommendation to the effect that their record, in all respects, is good; that their attitude has been satisfactory and is changing for the better; that their viewpoint towards the future is sensible and sound; that they, in short, have done the best they could to get full value out of the present school year...
...suits like Republic's have been brought against Labor, partly because many employers are so ignorant as to believe that unions are not "responsible," not liable to suit. Other reasons: litigation is slow, costly, uncertain; employers sometimes prefer to try to break unions before they have acquired the power to restrain trade. Anti-union employers got their great awakening only last April when Apex won its verdict for $711,000 in triple damages against Branch 1 of C. I. O.'s American Federation of Hosiery Workers (TIME, April 10). The Apex strike was a sitdown, which...
...American Youth Commission and Director Reeves believe that the Texas high-school youngsters who graduated last year with the slogan: "WPA, here we come," are not typical of U. S. Youth. They prefer to tell about the sandier college class which was told by its history professor that he planned to run for police commissioner of a university town but expected to be defeated by the city machine. The class went out and got him elected...
...those racing fans who prefer to bet against bookmakers (because their odds are stable), non-partisan observers last week suggested permitting both bookmakers and pari-mutuels to operate at New York tracks, a common practice in England and Australia. New York merchants, who disapprove of mutuels (because of their popularity with the masses), had the condolences of the merchants of Miami, Los Angeles, Boston, Baltimore...