Word: wishfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back in Tokyo after four months at home. The America-Japan Society again gave the usual dinner. This time Joseph Grew made a speech which was not only unusual: it was virtually unprecedented in ambassadorial usage. The Ambassador gave his distinguished audience an earful which made many of them wish for deafness. He used an unofficial occasion to express an official, definitely controversial, exceedingly ticklish point of view. His words, he said, "came straight from the horse's mouth . . . and mind you, I know whereof I speak...
...Devastating Consequences!" In international politics, Sweden has no wish nor much chance to make a grand slam. Her wealth and her small but efficiently equipped Army make her a national leader in the so-called Oslo Group (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, The Netherlands, Finland, Belgium-Luxembourg Trade Union) which overlaps the so-called Northern Neutrals (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland). These groups pursue a ceaseless European activity for lowered customs barriers, mobilization of Europe's remaining moral forces against aggression, and until lately they were the energetic champions of the League of Nations, now admittedly defunct...
...Czech atrocities against its German minority were rehashed up almost verbatim in regard to the Poles. . . . How far Herr Hitler himself believed in the truth of these tales must be a matter for conjecture. Germans are prone in any case to convince themselves very readily of anything which they wish to believe...
...among its departing assistant professors, the Government Department can prevent the appearance of any further gaps in its teaching and tutoring program. By juggling its assignments, the Department can have each member doing the work for which he is temperamentally and technically best fitted. A king could wish no more...
...editorial. With as much logic as grace you suggest one speaker as evil because you infer his association with material wealth, but seem even more at loss to explain the attitude of others whose riches lie in the field of learning. These clear voices, however, disclose nothing but the wish to advise the inexperienced and heedless concerning the facts of life. The educated freeman has a deep interest in opposing the contraction of the area where thought is free, but modern warfare, in which the machine crushes man as never before, gives peace loving people added realization of the danger...