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Word: willingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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"We are always willing to listen to anything the University proposes," City Manager John J. Curry '19 commented, "and will examine President Pusey's suggestion. We are awaiting more concrete details before we make any decision."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Council to Study New Parking Proposal | 10/10/1958 | See Source »

Councilor Mrs. Pearl Wise noted that "the fact that the University is willing to back up their proposal with money is indicative of true cooperation and is something not just to be explored, but to be achieved."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Council to Study New Parking Proposal | 10/10/1958 | See Source »

What Lederer-Burdick say they want in the U.S. Foreign Service is "a small force of well-trained professionals" who are willing "to risk their comforts and-in some lands-their health." What the authors really want (and no one can deny that it would be fine, if it were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The White Man's Burden | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

Mr. Guerard's book is not quite so sweeping as the title would indicate, which is just as well. There is very little biographical detail, and he is willing to deal with his favorite novels at great length, while others are dismissed with a few pages, or none. Partisans of...

Author: By Daniel Field, | Title: CONRAD THE NOVELIST, by Albert J. Guerard. Harvard University Press, 315 pp. $5.50 | 10/3/1958 | See Source »

Finally, the book has two general merits which are worth special mention, especially since it is difficult to cite most the merits of a book of this kind except with an empty summary. Guerard writes well; this is a rare quality in a book of detailed criticism, and I hope...

Author: By Daniel Field, | Title: CONRAD THE NOVELIST, by Albert J. Guerard. Harvard University Press, 315 pp. $5.50 | 10/3/1958 | See Source »

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