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Word: want (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your sister publication, LIFE (Sept. 25) reports that 83% of the American people want the Allies to win the war, while 1% want a German victory. I belong with that 1% so please let me have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 23, 1939 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...want Germany to win the war, but at the same time, understand, I want the United States to stay out of it. So does Germany. Hitler knows the United States will be the deciding factor in a world war, and he also knows we cannot fight on his side, for that reason he wants us out and he is right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 23, 1939 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...reply . . . and went on, "I say Kate-have you read your Times yet?" "No, I haven't-why?" "The news looks bad-Russia and Germany have signed a pact. I'm leaving here today and getting back home. It looks bad I tell you and I want to see my uniform is alright." "Well give me a ring before you do go to say 'Goodbye.' " "Alright, Kate-Goodbye." Sank back in my bed and that dull thud, thud in the head overtook me, the thud of wondering, imagining and trying not to wonder and imagine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 23, 1939 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

BOSTON, Oct. 21 (WUPS): Huey notices McCarthy's here, where's Bergen? The doctor said, "Koufmann; you'll Lovett." Anyway, Ayres to victory, you Brechka, although I don't want to get in Dutcher...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey, | Title: "I QUAKER AT PENN'S FATE BY THE MILLER THE GAME"--HUEY | 10/21/1939 | See Source »

...stay at the top. They won't give you a chance to breathe" . . . "Autograph hunters? To hell with them! Often I've played for 2,500 or 3,000 people and 1,000 would stand around the stand staring at me. They aren't listening--only gawking" . . . "Then they want autographs. Nothing doing! I'm too busy with my job. Sometimes I let my valet sign my name, and they're just as satisfied." . . . "My friends say I'm a damned fool. They say that these people made me. Want to know my answer? I tell them that...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 10/20/1939 | See Source »

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