Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...church and consider themselves Christians, while maintaining a rational, independent philosophy totally unhampered by ritualistic demands. Middle-ground Protestants, on the other hand, may feel nothing to hold them ritualistically, and may find theological demands somewhat too taxing for their reason, and, feeling no habitual church-going compulsion, prefer to switch to complete apostasy. There is also, of course, the lingering feeling that it is socially correct to be an Episcopalian or a Unitarian, although apparently the snob value of these churches is dying...
...Many people who are purchasing small imported cars will prefer first-class American transportation to the second-class transportation offered them by small foreign imports." So said Ford Motor Co. Chairman Ernest R. Breech last week, as Ford became the first of the U.S. Big Three to hold a press showing on closed-circuit television of its new 1960 compact car to newsmen gathered in 21 cities...
...enthusiastic receptions the people of Russia, Siberia and Poland gave Nixon proves how they, like us, prefer Nixon and Americanism over Khrushchev and Communism. J. KESNER KAHN Chicago
...economist, wading through Hearst's 94 separate corporations, discovered outstanding debts of $126 million. What Hearst was after was possessions, power and journalistic influence. His successors, a 13-man board of trustees headed by hard-eyed Richard E. Berlin, 65, a onetime Hearst ad salesman, prefer, where possible, to take a profit and let the influence...
...good for nothing. Its message is that everything is blessed and peaceful. That's not the message of Christ. The message of Christ is 'Are you able to endure all things as I endure them-even crucifixion?'"' If hymns must be sung, Wiant would prefer such Reformation hymns as A Mighty Fortress Is Our God and 0 God, Our Help in Ages Past...