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Word: wishfully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Members of the House Committee will be available during these hours to talk informally with candidates who may wish to discuss general House activities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONSULTATION HOURS FOR HOUSE APPLICANTS | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...years and never got a squarer deal. ... I was a sap for leaving him. He may never have given a leg man a decent wage, but when it came to hiring advertising men, he had the knack of getting some real producers and he paid them well. .... I only wish I were working...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 27, 1939 | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

Although Bill Douglas will not put his lanky legs on the high court's august desk or chain-smoke cigarets during hearings, he may often wish he could. That is the way he behaved in the chair of SEC. His care less clothes, sandy hair awry, speech plain as a pikestaff, are essentially characteristic of the young man who only 17 years ago herded sheep and bummed on box cars to get East for his legal education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUDICIARY: No Monkey Business | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...Germany has neither the wish nor the intention to mix in internal Austrian affairs, or to annex or unite with Austria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mehrer's Progress | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...rather a lotus-land, the private domain of Indifference. Cantabridgians would shy in dismay from any public demonstration of simple school spirit. But secretly most of them admit that all is not well here, that there might be a more ideal attitude. And certainly they would not wish to see Dartmouth hide its spontaneous war-whoops under a hypocritical cloak of assumed indifference. It is not for Harvard men, but they see something vital and healthy in the rah-rah spirit which pervades most of the nation's campuses. So back to the tepees of your fathers, young bucks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BACK TO YOUR TEPEE | 3/25/1939 | See Source »

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