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Word: want (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your date would be much better, because the fewer the number of singles applied for, the better the doubles will be. The H.A.A. always forms a cheering section in the center part of the stands, consisting of all the 3,000-odd contribution book holders who want but one ticket for the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Taking Dates to Penn Game Will Occupy Seats Near Goal-Lines | 10/20/1939 | See Source »

...most of sections 33, 34, and 35. Beyond that, group reservations are placed as near as possible to the center of the field. The ticket office recognizes the right of each man to have two good seats for a game, but after that it draws the line. If you want four seats for a game, you will have to take two of them out near the goal line. Before you get these extra two, you would have to wait until all of the other two-ticket applications had been filled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Taking Dates to Penn Game Will Occupy Seats Near Goal-Lines | 10/20/1939 | See Source »

Radcliffe girls want a chance to dance with Harvard men, and so they have started a series of lectures on the ballet, in order to stir up some interest among the members of the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RADCLIFFE CHORINES NEED HARVARD MEN FOR DANCING | 10/19/1939 | See Source »

...accurate. "Gentlemen," he said to a cluster of reporters, "you have seen for yourselves what criminal folly it was to try to defend this city in a military way, and how that defense collapsed after only two days. I only wish certain statesmen in other countries who seem to want to turn the whole of Western Europe into such a shambles as Warsaw could have an opportunity of seeing, as you have, the real meaning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EASTERN THEATRE: This Day Ends a Battle | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Faced with what appeared to be merely another organization--with the usual dining hall solicitation, propaganda, and lapel buttons--students have been asking just what they are expected to join. They want to know whether a policy is to be formulated, and if so, how and what. They feel that the vague program of discussion, publicity, and opposition to "mass fatalism" is negative and incomplete. They are asking for a positive program, with well defined objectives and straight-forward means of reaching them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A HOUSE BUILT ON A ROCK | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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