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Word: desiree (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since O. Henry's "Roads of Destiny" and long before, people have been obsessed with the desire to look into the future. To see where the paths of life would lead them, before they made their final choice. The authors of "The Eyes of Youth" have engendered this one idea...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/21/1924 | See Source »

The new Attorney General, Mr. Stone, said: "I desire to thank you for your services to the Government and to wish you all future success and happiness."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Investigations | 5/19/1924 | See Source »

"Now I don't mean by that a narrow and bigoted partisanship, but one that recognizes the necessity to cooperate one with another, if we are in any way to secure the result that we desire. That has been the model of our country from the time when it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Coolidge's Week: May 19, 1924 | 5/19/1924 | See Source »

Another minor point in the deliberations hinges on the question of Chesham House, Tsarist London Embassy. At present M. Sabline, member of the Embassy staff before Bolshevik days, occupies the house and, "recognizing that he is not in Moscow," refuses to budge. M. Rakovsky claimed the Embassy for Sovietland and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Anglo-Russian | 5/19/1924 | See Source »

Not the job is done. Even when the main structure is erected and in use, there will be odds and ends to tend to, to straighten up and tidy away or put to possible use. Last year, for example, contests in several sports between winning class teams of the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mariners All | 5/17/1924 | See Source »

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