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Word: want (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...etiquette on what to do when confronted with international bandits. . . . They can go back whence they came with my compliments." The State Department soon made known that it would in no way assist the Nazis to seize the Czech Government's property in the U. S. If Nazis want it they will have to convince the Supreme Court of their right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Indigestible Real Estate | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...eternal dream of the German people has been fulfilled. . . . Germany wants only peace. She does not want to add to the sorrow of other nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mehrer's Progress | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...work, which has been compared to Thackeray's by Clifton "Information Please" Fadiman of the New Yorker, Marquand said, "The awful thing in writing in to take yourself too seriously. I don't want ever to feel I'm a great writer I want to be only too conscious of my own defects. Nor do I yearn to write a 'monumental work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: J. P. Marquand, Boston Satirist, Found How Culture Feels While at Harvard | 3/24/1939 | See Source »

...This year the number will probably be greater, since the Housemasters have decided to favor upperclassmen more than they have in the past. Like finding a job in a "recession," getting into a House forces a Freshman to sell himself to the powers that be if he doesn't want to be left out in the cold of Mt. Auburn...

Author: By Spencer Klaw, | Title: Freshmen Face Hard Problems In Getting Taken into Houses | 3/22/1939 | See Source »

...Loewi, author of an article on the "Feild Case." Without prejudice to the rights or wrongs of the now painful Case, a reviewer may point out the unwisdom of painting the devil all black. Dryden praised Achitophe the judge and Pope allowed Atticus true genius. Mr. Loewi shows a want of imagination, or at least of strategy, in claiming that the Department of Fine Arts was moved solely by personal vindictiveness in failing to reappoint Professor Feild...

Author: By David Worcester, | Title: On the Shelf | 3/22/1939 | See Source »

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