Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...taking its part in the nation's prime task of preventing a major depression, C.E.D. said, industry itself has two big jobs of its own: 1) to find ways of reducing seasonal unemployment, and 2) to provide jobs for older people "who prefer work to retirement...
Andrys Grots '52 of Leverett House, has another, and a very simple criteria for judging women. Grots, who has an unpleasant past involving both the Russians and the Germans, simply looks for girls with long hair. "I guess I'm just used to it," he said, "and I prefer it greatly to the current styles...
After the game Godin announced that he had received offers from six major league teams. Although he has not decided definitely which team to join, he revealed that he would prefer the American League. This would narrow the field down to the Red Sox, Yankees, and Detroit. His decision will be forthcoming either today or tomorrow...
...years ago. The ostensible cause: Hungary's Bench of Bishops had refused to support an anti-Western "peace" resolution of the Partisans of Peace, an international Communist front. When a group of Hungarian nuns refused to sign the "peace" resolution, one Red paper screeched: "These warlike sisters prefer to see burned and mangled corpses rather than healthy cheerful people...
...course, some people are naturally conservative; they prefer to avoid taking a position wherever possible. They just don't believe in going out on a limb, when they don't even know the genus of the tree. For those people, the vague generality must be partially junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...