Word: want
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been an editor on the WPA Federal Writers' Project for more than three years. I take work relief because I need it but I want permanent work...
...breastroke post. Cutler and Frannie Powers will probably swim the 220 together, for Ulen must garner every point possible before the slaughter begins in the back and breast strokes. Although he can put a better 400 relay on the mark than can Brown, Harvard's saturnine sage does not want the seven-point last event to decide the meet, preferring, if he can, to gain enough tallies by seconds and thirds and by a possible six points in the quarter to clinch the contest...
...immediate benefit, however, can be determined to a certain extent. The fifty-five underprivileged graduates of Greater Boston High Schools want one of three things: (1) to prepare themselves for college if finances ever allow them to attend; (2) to study those subjects beneficial to their business or daily occupation; (3) to gain "general culture" in their personal interests. If they are to achieve these ends they must have in whatever way possible the advantages of regular undergraduates. Through personal meetings with their tutors once or twice a week, they can accomplish as much or little as their ambition demands...
...repeating the same type of test at the end of the year, an attempt will be made to gain a factual estimate of their improvement. In one of these three ways, the Undergraduate Faculty may be able to discover whether it is giving its tutees the benefits they want. Lawrence Lader, co-chairman Undergraduate Faculty Committee...
...Warner is as passionately sincere as Don Juan is insincerely passionate. Last year Miss Warner saw Spain first-hand-as a Loyalist nurse. Without being either obvious or partisan, she plants in her 18th-Century story seeds of 20th-Century violence. She pits the peasants of Tenorio Viejo, who want irrigation for their lands, against the Don, who wants lace for his coats and whose income is peasants' rents. The peasants are lovable, clumsily funny, tragically simple. But there is nothing lovable about Miss Warner's Juan, imperious, selfish, ruthless, clever...