Word: want
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Settlement? Evidence that the Czech leaders want time to consider Henlein's demands, perhaps to accept his "autonomy" solution, was seen last week when they postponed for a fortnight a session of Parliament that is to tackle the problem...
Marriage & Family: Four out of five youngsters (including almost half of the married couples) are living with their parents. Only 3% of the unmarried ones want to leave home. Nearly all want to marry, have a home and children (but not so many as their parents). Youth is still marrying early; median marrying age of the Maryland boys was 21, of the girls, 19, and 13% of the brides had married at 16 or younger...
...more Goodman children in another bed in the same room. Mother Goodman, accustomed to peasant ways, refused to send Johnny to an isolation hospital or keep him from the other children. The health authorities, unable to find a law to compel Mother Goodman to do what she did not want to do with her brood, placarded the house and went away. Johnny got well. None of the other children got diphtheria...
About all the painting most strictly modern architects want in their buildings can be done by a house painter. This fact greatly grieves the young school of muralists who have found their inspiration in Rivera and Orozco, their opportunity under WPA. Lately, however, a few architects and a few painters have had a happy, conciliatory thought. If modern architecture relies on the beauty of abstract forms, why should it not employ, for certain chaste effects, the painting of pure abstractionists...
...solemn Whig lad, David Balfour of Shaws, 14-year-old Freddie Bartholomew may be a shade on the jackanapes side for those who want their Stevenson straight, but he fits this feckless Fox version. Gibbous nose aloft and in fine priggish voice, Master Freddie imparts phonetic reality to an age when Britishers wrote s's that looked like...