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Word: wanting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Everybody's kicking--even the shop-owners," said another. "When we take a fare to the florist or the Trust Company, they want us to wait for them. If we do, we get tagged...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cabbies Condemn Rotary in Square | 10/14/1949 | See Source »

With its rock-climbs at Quincy and its ice-climbs at Mt. Washington, HMC promises to prepare a novice for mountain conditions anywhere in the Alps. Just why a man should want to travel 4000 miles to climb an obscure pinnacle in Liechtenstein, of course, is a question that even a mountaineer couldn't answer.Getting down off a cliff can be just as hard as getting up. FREDERICK L. DUNN '51 (left) demonstrates the easy way--if you don't mind feeling like the heroine of "Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight." The technique is called "rapelling." Dunn wraps the rope...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Mountaineering Club Climbs to 25th Year | 10/13/1949 | See Source »

...Student Council voted last night to run a football ticket clearance center through which students who want to soll or buy Army game admissions can find other students in the same boat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Will Swap Tickets; Bingham Reports on H A A | 10/11/1949 | See Source »

...citizens, the same functions as members of a community, the same functions as voters and volunteers." When Harvard was reforming its curriculum, Wellesley did the same, tightened course requirements to give freshmen and sophomores a broader general education. After two years, the girls pick their major. If they want, they can take a dose of child psychology and attend lectures on the problems of marriage. But most girls seem to want something more. As Junior Callie Huger puts it: "I want to broaden my mind, not just my husband's stomach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Just Well Rounded | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...been better trucking movies (They Drive By Night), but none so fast or so violent. Most spectacular shot: Millard Mitchell burning alive in the remains of his rickety truck. Most surprising scene: the flagrant cruelty of the hero as he unmercifully slugs a flabby villain who doesn't want to fight. After breaking an ax handle on the villain's hand, Conte mauls him from one end of a bar to the other with a series of rabbit punches, each of which sounds like the cracking of a dinosaur's knuckle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 10, 1949 | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

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