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Word: wishful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seemed a forlorn hope. "The film," loftily retorted the Sports Society's president, the Duke of Beaufort, "is not one in which any real sportsman would wish his hounds to take part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Gone to Earth | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...size, and the size of the entire eligible student body. If every club did this, according to exponents of the compromise plan, the total number of students accepted would be 100 percent, while the clubs could at the same time have the right to choose whom they wish within that quota...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Princeton Clubs Divided on Proposal to Open Membership to 100 Percent of Upper Classes | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

...this material with batteries of statistics, with reams of physical and cultural data. As far as we can make out, this is where Mr. Parsons comes in and does some integrating. He has a young department and a healthy one and all sorts of interesting courses. We wish him well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soc Rel Ties In | 11/3/1949 | See Source »

...Expanding facilities not only for new Ph.D.s, but also for non-permanent appointees--Harvard instructors and assistant professors--who wish to teach at other universities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Buck Picks Group To Study Coming Surplus in Ph.D.s | 11/2/1949 | See Source »

Those in one graduate school who wish to transfer to another will have to go to the VA with their proposed switch and explain why. This ruling does not affect students in the normal college-to-graduate school progression...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Revisions in GI Education Bill Face Vets Today | 11/1/1949 | See Source »

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