Word: wishful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...article does not reflect exactly the thought I had in mind . . . but in the main it is accurate. I believe there will be considerable travel by airplane by those who are curious and those who wish to have the experience of the trip. In the end, however, the travel by this means will settle down to those who have urgent business and are willing to pay the extra price for speed. Last year the Santa Fe handled an average of 12,400 passengers per day on its trains. It might lose several hundred of these to airplanes...
Return. As he left Washington in the private car of President Daniel Willard of the Baltimore & Ohio R. R., the tall and visibly tired Scot said to Statesman Stimson: "I wish I could stay longer." Five minutes at Baltimore were spent acknowledging cheers, receiving two engrossed scrolls which conferred honorary membership in the Maryland Academy of Sciences, the socialite St. Andrews Society...
...pretty careful about how much I think. Of course I'll get the winners right but I might miss up a point or so on one or two of the scores, so you better haul right out of those pools and wait until next week. By the way, I wish every one would stop writing me for the scores early in the week. I've got an agreement with most of the coaches not to give them out before Saturday so as not to discourage the boys unnecessarily...
...police request the Harvard Management to announce that all cars must be removed from the parking space before it is time to have the lights turned on as the law regarding the lighting of automobiles will be strictly enforced. They further wish automobilists to be warned against leaving their cars in charge of the numerous boys who want to "mind your car" as many thefts have occurred this...
...percentage of men with collegiate training who have done well in business and finance in New York City must be very high. Yet there must be times when, puzzled how to decide among the qualifications of more boys than there is room for, Dean Gauss and Dean Hoermance wish that Mr. Carlisle might win a few prosolytes to his harsh theory. New York Times...