Word: want
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quartet does not ask for any handicap in their match with Crimsonites. All they want to some competition from four experts who will give them a good fight at the very least...
...Fine Arts Department seems to have irrevocably decided that it does not want men with Professor Robin Feild's approach to the teaching of art. In spite of the impression which has been given that it would rather cut its own arm off than lose him if it were not for personal and administrative considerations, the issue clearly goes beyond these and raises the question of the department's general attitude toward the teaching of this subject. To this question no complete and dogmatic answer can be given which would invalidate its entire function. The department is highly esteemed...
Said the Isis: "We want no English pretender. God forbid. But if it is indeed their wish to return to England, we will give them such a welcome as they have never seen before. To the Duchess in particular, whether as her Royal Highness or just as the chosen wife of the man who for so many years served this nation as few have served it, we will show that courtesy is not wholly dead among the middle and lower classes of the British people...
Culture-conscious citizens of smaller U. S. cities hunger for high-class music. But few of them ever have a chance to tell a diva from a bettelhooper.* Ordering music a la carte, as music lovers in big cities do, takes expert picking & choosing. Because they want to be sure of the quality of their imported music, small-town U. S. music lovers have long bought it in packaged lots from large, nationally organized concert chains...
Said Fischer: "The Neutrality Act ... is wrong in principle. We sell airplanes to France . . . because we want her to be stronger if attacked by a Fascist aggressor, but we refuse airplanes to Democratic Spain, which has already been attacked by two Fascist aggressors." Said Villard: "The purpose of this Act is to prevent our being drawn into war. . . . America must stay at peace. Who are we to set ourselves up to judge which side is right and which side is wrong...