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Word: wish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wish to come out for the club and who were not present last night may report this evening at 14 Russell Hall. No previous experience is necessary, and Freshmen are eligible for the team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gun Club to Meet With Yale | 10/19/1927 | See Source »

...year's study, many of them will return to their native lands to apply U. S. educational methods. ¶ At the Ballard School of the Y.W.C.A., Manhattan, girls are offered a Personality Course. Said Miss Jeanette Hammill, director: "I suppose most women look forward to being married and wish to know the secrets of personality that they may make themselves as pleasant as possible to husbands as well as to people generally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Matriculation | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

...with amazing rapidity. We are able to feel the heat of the sun and enthuse over the coloring of the sunsets with the author, despite the fact that his descriptions lack the length which is usually needed to be convincing. Throughout the narrative, the history, or whatever you wish to call this book, there runs a dry and sometimes monotonous humor. Perhaps it is because one becomes more accustomed to it, perhaps it is because it seems to fit in so well with the weirdness of the surroundings,--for one reason or another we cease to be bored with...

Author: By Walter GIEBASCH ., | Title: CAMELS! By Daniel W. Streeter, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1927. $2.50. | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

...brought out by the Shakespeare Head Press, will please the most exacting reader. The format is the product of the greatest care in arrangement and composition, while the decorations have been drawn especially for the text. As an example of the printer's art, it will satisfy all who wish to see one of the great classics issued in a form which does it justice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fall Books of Distinction AT THE COOP | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

...Harvard does not wish to start such a professorship, the money is to be used as a scholarship fund for Harvard students to study astronomy elsewhere, preferably at the Royal Geographical Society of England...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $150,000 GIFT TO ESTABLISH ASTRONOMY PROFESSORSHIP | 10/15/1927 | See Source »

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