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Word: desiree (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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No less a tradition is Winchester's almost complete rule by the boys themselves; the head of the school government, always one of the "scholars," has five or six assistants in each of the ten dormitories. Under this system, which was started by the boys themselves to fill a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Desire to Conform | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

While the attitude of the British labor class is still unsolidified, it will soon emerge reflecting "bread-and-butter" objections--desire for wage increases to meet the rising domestic prices consequent with devaluation. So far Sir Stafford Cripps' 20 percent increase in profits taxes does no more than place an...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pounds and Politics | 10/1/1949 | See Source »

The pressures of population in the Far East are an important reason for the misery of the people and their discontent, Thomas said, and the problem of population control in these countries is a crucial one. The East's present great desire for mechanization will not succeed in raising standards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: China Revolution Is Not Marxist, Expert Declares | 9/30/1949 | See Source »

He pointed to the economic help for Latin America already going forward under the Export-Import Bank and the World Bank, but he reaffirmed the U.S. desire to see "the job ahead . . . done through private initiative." He approved the results of such U.S.-sponsored economic surveys as last winter'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summing Up | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

Apart from the legend, the official story goes that the university was founded soon after the death of young Leland, in memory of the boy who died just before he reached college age. Senator Stanford expressed the desire that the university should bring intellectual life to the West and add...

Author: By Edward J. Back, | Title: Stanford Cultivates ' School Spirit' and Rallies In Drive to Become 'The Harvard of The West' | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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