Word: desiree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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But within his own church there has been increasing desire for reconciliation rather than competition with the Roman Catholic Church.
¶Future generations of Americans will be born without any desire for liquor if the prohibition law is continued and strictly enforced.
Dr. Gray deplores the absolute lack of a spirit of question and revolt in the mind of the average American college student. Charming he finds them, and quick witted, but intellectually docile. They seem to be conscious conformists, utterly without that fierce sense of mental rebellion and the desire for...
Dr. Gray, in stating that American colleges have not been subjected to the rending forces that have torn intellectual Europe, is undeniably correct; but he does not carry his proposition through to its logical conclusion. The resentment at things as they are and the desperate desire for freedom from constraint...
"Hurrah! This is a great step forward. It gives to education the status of a national interest and represents a compromise between the desire for a National Department of Education with national subsidies, as represented by the Smith-Towner and Towner-Sterling bills, and the present situation. Such a plan...