Word: desiree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The following interview was procured at the suggestion of several prominent members of the faculty, who asserted that Americans who desire to study a year or two in Europe so rarely give consideration to any of the Universities of France, but proceed immediately to either Cambridge or Oxford, where the...
"The Library of the school is one of the most important law libraries in the world and is without much doubt larger and better than any collection of law books in the English speaking world. It is the desire of the school to enable a person to investigate in the...
In Manila, Japanese, Chinese, Filipinos, contested in track sports. Filipinos, nimble as brown beetles, led; the disgruntled Japanese strove to retrieve the honor of their country. Their coach, one Okabe, held consultation with his trustees, made whispered suggestions. Curious sleights began, to make the yellow athletes perilous. They were warned...
As for the desire to eat--that human frailty which is so universally toadied to we can but scantily satisfy it. Certain of the undergraduates have their eating clubs, but the great unwashed (meaning the postgraduates) wander hungrily from the "Splendid" to the "Georgian", or dissipate at "The Betty Day...
U. S. Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover-"The older economists taught the essential influences of 'wish,' 'want' and 'desire' as motive forces in economic progress. You have taken over the job of creating desire. You have still another job-creating goodwill in order to...