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Word: wishful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wish you might give us a picture and a fuller description of Mr. Herbert Jacobs' "one-story, six-room, $5,500 house" (designed by Mr. Wright) in Madison, Wis. It is what you call Exhibit A in Mr. Wright's scheme of things Usonian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 31, 1938 | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

...once wrote a letter to his dean, informing him that "it is convincingly evident to me that you be removed as dean of St. Mary's Cathedral. This removal will take place at once. ... I do not think that you are at present your normal self, and I wish to give you an opportunity to return to your normal self when you will be able to exercise the abilities and spirituality which you so abundantly possess in the spread of Christ's kingdom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Vagary | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

Proposing the establishment of an Institute of German Studies at Harvard, centralizing all the University's teaching and research in German arts and letters, the wish was voiced today in the annual report of Charles L. Kuhn Curator of the Germanic Museum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KUHN URGES CREATION OF GERMAN INSTITUTE | 1/26/1938 | See Source »

Applicants must file with their application a plan of the course of study they wish to follow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nieman Fellowship Blanks Must Be Filed Before March | 1/26/1938 | See Source »

Miracles-Divided as to whether they actually occur, the commission agreed that God can perform them if he wishes, although some hold that he does not wish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Addled Egg | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

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