Word: wish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After a contribution from a man of Mr. Waddy's evident character, no one, truly modest though he may be, should for that reason refrain from addressing an open letter to TIME. If you wish, you may print this one, of course...
...Particularly do I wish to voice my admiration of the editors who handle your FOREIGN NEWS. The pointed, condensed methods used are excellent. Your weekly words about the China situation are splendid. Congratulations to your China Editor, whom I would really like to know some day, for his subject happens also to be my hobby. I must wish you "Ten Thousand Years...
...some marriages are entered into with the expectation of the wife's bearing children, that other marriages are entered into with no such expectation. Why not, urges Judge Lindsey, recognize the childless marriage as a different but legal form of union? Let a boy and a girl who wish to marry, but who cannot well afford to have children, marry and, with the aid of widespread birth-control knowledge, take care that they have no children. Then, if they do not get along with each other and wish to separate, let them be granted a divorce on grounds...
...Naval Limitations Parley* is developing into an Anglo-American struggle for supremacy. . . . Great Britain's attitude reveals her wish to remain the foremost naval power. . . . America says, rather hysterically, that .she will never be content with an inferior navy...
...trunk the rough draft of a tune he had thought up some years before. The words for the tune had been suggested to him by a grumble he had often heard on the lips of circus performers "up North" when nippy autumn nights set in: "I wish - I was in Dixie's land...