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Word: wishful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wish to correct a statement that appeared in Monday's Crimson. When the Harvard dining-hall employees met Sunday night in Cypress Hall, the Student Union as a whole had not yet defined its stand on the present labor situation in the dining-halls, Mr. Ogden, who spoke at that meeting made no pledge of support from the Student Union as a whole. He did, however, promise the cooperation of the Labor Committee which had had an opportunity to review the situation and arrive at a position. We offer this correction only to indicate that the decisions of the Students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 3/15/1939 | See Source »

Application blanks for admission to the Houses are now in the bands of the members of the Freshman class and are available to the Classes of 1940 and 1941. All Sophomores and Juniors who wish House accommodations next year must apply at University 4, even though their names are already on the waiting list...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BLANKS FOR HOUSE APPLICATIONS OUT | 3/14/1939 | See Source »

...impolitic remarks and methods that professors are prone to use cause the same type of resentment. Town concludes that gown does not take its problems seriously enough; students make open sport of local government and the faculty is too inept in politics to prove it does not wish to experiment with the municipality as a guinea...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIGNAL FIRE | 3/14/1939 | See Source »

...Eugenio Pacelli, newly His Holiness Pope Pius XII (see p. 36), the President cabled: "It is with true happiness that I learned of your selection as Supreme Pontiff. Recalling with pleasure our meeting on the occasion of your recent visit to the United States, I wish to take this occasion to send you a personal message of felicitation and good wishes. ROOSEVELT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Thy Servant, Franklin | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...other in posse. I am Vice President. In this I am nothing, but I may be everything. But am president also of the Senate. When the President comes into the Senate, what shall he be? I cannot be [president] then. No, gentlemen, I cannot, I cannot. I wish, gentlemen, to think what I shall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Birthday Party | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

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