Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Support for University admissions policies came from a valuable source last night when Rosemary Colligan, a New York model, told the CRIMSON she prefer. Harvard men to Princeton fellows "because Harvard draws its student body from all over the nation...
...filed into the palace gardens to pay their respects to the Mikado. Since the Emperor has formally ceased to be a god and has begun to move freely about his realm, he has become even more popular with his people than in the old days. His subjects seem to prefer his humanity to his divinity; at baseball games (he recently attended his first-see cut), among workers, wherever he goes, they take inexplicable comfort from his invariable approving remark, "Ah so, ah so." Yet even in their homage of their constitutional monarch the people are confused...
Proclaimed Finance Minister Hayato Ikeda, one of Japan's few competent cabinet members, who had done the spadework with Joe Dodge: "Real political freedom cannot be hoped for where there is no economic independence. If we Japanese prefer to lie idly dependent on the help of foreign countries, we would be disgracing both our forefathers and our children...
...manager of each visiting team gets an elaborate questionnaire from the Key about two weeks before the game that asks about the players' whims and wishes, covering almost all things except perhaps whether they prefer whiskey...
Some fanciers of the thoroughbred fresh prefer the Derby (or the Darby, depending on your headsize). Others go for the Preakness. But to that elite Cambridge coterie of followers of those highstrung animals all other races fade into obscurity at the mere mention of the Wellesley Hoop Race...