Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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This state of affairs has come about because a cow in Ruanda is like a Cadillac in the U.S.-a mark of social distinction. The natives almost never sell or slaughter their cows, in time of famine prefer to die of starvation beside their impassive bovines. Each animal has its own name and every Ruandan dreams of at least two cows in his pasture. The cows are now increasing at the rate of 120,000 a year. They tie up the best land, hamper the natives in raising food crops. "Except the king,"*runs a popular saying, "nothing ranks above...
Comedienne Carol Channihg, 29, admitted that a grave personal problem had grown out of her playing the role of bird-brained Lorelei Lee in Broadway's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. People seemed to be convinced that she is a birdbrain offstage, too: "I won't say that people actually think I'm just two steps removed from outright idiocy, but they do seem to have adopted a protective attitude towards...
Last week, Lieut, (j.g.) McNeilly was at the U.S. Marine Hospital at Carville, La., boning up on the most modern sulfone treatment for what victims prefer to call Hansen's disease (TIME, Dec. 30, 1946). Next he will spend a month at Hawaii's leprosarium on Molokai Island. On May 1 he will go to Tinian with his wife, who is a registered nurse, and their two small daughters...
...Just a Housewife." As a result, women have clung to the "biologically fantastic notion that to be different from men is to be inferior to men." Having no respect for themselves, they seem to prefer to have men speak at their clubs, to work for male bosses, and to vote for a second-rate man in an election rather than a first-rate woman. Since they no longer churn the butter, make the candles, plow the fields, or even bring their husbands a dowry, they are deeply plagued by a "sense of parasitism...
...young made it a newsworthy event; that the young actor should be unanimously hailed by the critics as the best Lear they had known made it an important occasion in the English-speaking theatre. Later Lears that have come along, notably Laurence Olivier's, have pleased some critics who prefer a witless, senile Lear. But most reviewers emphasize the word "majesty' in their praise of the Devlin Lear. The New York Times corrsepondent wrote that Mr. Devlin was acting Lear "in the classical tradition, caring less for displays than for proportion, completeness, and an architectural justice of line...