Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...college to pick, parents have no particular favorite. Harvard leads the men's list, but with only 3.5%. Vassar (2%) is tops for women. Sixty percent want their daughters to go to coed schools, and 58% favor the same for their sons. By two to one, U.S. parents prefer schools where their children will have a chance to join fraternities and sororities...
...that a son's education should be weighted toward training him "for a particular occupation or profession"-with the liberal arts secondary. One group who are inclined to reverse the order: college graduates themselves. But even with them, the liberal arts have no runaway; 44% of the grads prefer a liberal arts emphasis, 38% are for technical and professional emphasis, and 18% say "it depends" or have no opinion...
...statement concluding TIME'S article-"Such matters [used v. new barrels] are actually pure custom; the Scotch prefer used sherry casks"-is nearly as irrelevant as saying that gin producers prefer not to age in barrels...
...could not arrive before they were defeated. The U.S. would then again have to liberate the Continent. After another war and Russian rule, not much would be left to liberate. Said a Belgian staff colonel: "We are not interested in being liberated after an occupation. Rather than this we prefer death...
...however, has his enemies. Two of Zaim's are Nuri Said, Premier of Iraq, and King Abdullah of Jordan. Both have long cast covetous eyes on Syria as a desirable part of their respective schemes for an Arab federation. Zaim himself favors a revitalized Arab League, but would prefer to boss it himself. With the Palestine war over, his chances of doing just that seemed to be looking...