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Word: wanting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gentlemen of the newspaper profession" he intoned, grinning, to the talking newsreel machine, "I want to thank you for your kind reception tonight. I hope you will have another opportunity, and I know you will, for a little more training and then I believe you will show marked improvement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Sinclair Steps Out | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...Hell!" cried a lyncher. "He don't want to talk. String...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: String Him Up | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...unfortunate aspect of this fading power is not that Harvard will eventually lose its firm grasp on the American stage, but that what was once a fertile field of capable dramatists has suddenly become barren for want of cultivation. The tradition which established theatrical activity has fortunately not had time to become extinct as is definitely indicated by the recurring undergraduate efforts to cause some sort of dramatic revival. But the impetus necessary to materialize these feelings must come before the fire is smothered in the obliterating blanket of opposition and neglect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LES TROIS COUPS | 11/30/1929 | See Source »

...their assistants from the applicants. I say from the applicants because there seems at present little doubt that for the two new Houses, to be finished in September, 1930, there will be more than applicants enough of all kinds: and when the plan is complete, students are unlikely to want to be left out of a system substantially universal. I should add that the applications may be made individually or in groups of moderate size...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOWELL OUTLINES HOUSE SYSTEM IN SPEECH AT ALBANY | 11/26/1929 | See Source »

...they are still in the infant industry class protection in the form of University subsidy seems much more advisable in that it will not antagonize any potential users of the Halls by the noxious element of compulsion. If after several years experiment on this basis, men still do not want to eat often enough in the halls to make them self supporting on a per meal basis, the whole idea of University dining halls should be done away with, unless the University is willing to continue the practice of subsidy on the ground that House Dining Halls are a good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DINING HALL CHARGE | 11/26/1929 | See Source »

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