Word: wishful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wish to express my appreciation for the kind letters that students have sent to the CRIMSON and to me personally on the subject of the interruption in the last lecture of Social Relations lb. George C. Homans Associate Professor of Sociology
...have ended any other way and Georgette (Friday's Child) Heyer's fans wouldn't want it to. Her so-called Regency novels (1811-1820), of which Arabella is the latest, are as slick, as painless and as inconsequential as the most languid hammock reader could wish, and they have helped to make her one of the bestselling writers in Britain today. Author Heyer has soaked up the speech, the manners, the pretentions and the social ambitions of her Regency smart set. She has been compared, say her publishers, to Jane Austen, and that fine writer...
...good,' she told me. There's nothing anyone can do for him.' Then she said the words that shocked me terribly and at the same time made me feel sorry for her. 'Sometimes,' she told me, 'I wish I could do away with my baby...
...little man with a shiny bald pate, who came to the Berkeley campus in 1905 and has been teaching there ever since. In that time no student who was as much as 30 seconds late has ever made his way into one of his lectures; those who tried it wish they had saved themselves the tongue-lashing. On the outside, Captain Kidd was a mild enough man, quick with advice or even a small loan for a student who needed it. But inside his classroom, peering out from under his green eyeshade, he was a different...
Thanks to the hospitality of neighbor sailors at MIT, Crimson yactsmen have never had to wish for boats. Harvard sailors, graced with early afternoon use of institute's fleet of 45 dinghles have consistently produced fine sailing teams ever since college yachting gained popularity over 20 years...