Word: wanting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Ulysses Grant is heard to want...
Original works of art are of course beyond the reach of any college student. Heliotypes are so thoroughly within the reach of everybody that, very naturally, nobody wants them. What you do want and need are good photographs and tolerable engravings of pictures or of statues or of buildings or of scenes which everybody has not seen, and which everybody does not see in every room that he enters...
...never a sign of want would he show...
...stand taken by Harvard cannot be to her advantage. If she waits to win a race, working in the Association all this time in but a half-hearted way, then no one can blame her enemies for crying that her wish to withdraw has arisen solely from her want of success; and thus she loses all credit for her more honorable motives, which are, after all, her real ones...
...open question whether the grade of food is high enough for men who are leading a sedentary life. I do not intend to trespass on the columns of the Crimson with any detailed complaints, for an opportunity is now given to complain immediately to the Directors; but I want to bring before the Corporation, which reserves the power to interfere in regard to the health of the students, as well as before the students themselves, the question whether our food is sufficiently nourishing...