Word: regretful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interview yesterday, Judge Robert Walcott '95, speaking as a trustee of the Cambridge Hospital and also of the Cambridge Home for Aged People, both of which institutions will be affected by the proposed bridge, said: "The Cambridge Hospital and the Homes for Aged People regret the increased noise, but recognize that this link must be made. None of our land is condemned. There is no doubt but what the bridge will become a necessity when the relocated Concord turnpike is completed. This road will offer a quick through-way to Concord and all points west on the Mohawk trail...
...expressed regret that the new appointment would necessitate his leaving Harvard, where he has taught since 1917; but he feels that it is his duty to accept the larger position offered him by the government. He will not leave for Washington until some time next week, and under to circumstances until a competent man has been found to fill his post as commissioner of correction...
...mandates of Communist Reichstag Deputies and then, on the first provocation, to seize all the Communist leaders, each of whom had committed enough crimes to be hung three times!" Folding his great arms and brooding for a moment like a brown Jove, General Göring exclaimed, "I regret exceedingly that certain Communist leaders have been saved from the gallows through such premature forcing of my hand. ... So surprised was I when I heard the Reichstag was burning that I thought faulty electric wiring must have started some small fire. ... As I rushed to the Reichstag in my care someone...
When the shooting started His Majesty asked with interest who was leading the rebels. "Sire," he was told, "they are led by Prince Bavaradej. He has captured the Royal Airdrome and is marching on Bangkok." "What? Prince Bavaradej!" cried King Prajadhipok. "Inform the populace at once of my deep regret that a member of the Royal Family should be leading a revolt against the Government." Not the cynical wisecrack of a dissolute sovereign, this pronouncement reflected King Prajadhipok's knowledge that his people regard him as their deliverer from the rest of the Royal Family, a horde of princes...
...woman now (she is 67), Anne Sullivan Macy realizes that she has given her whole life to another person; she does not regret it. Says she: "We do not, I think, choose our destiny. It chooses...