Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wish to call to your attention a number of inaccuracies in your story "Progress Report" [TIME, June...
...wish to apply for this financial aid may do so any time during the summer term by seeing the Phillips Brooks House secretary...
...dividend of information which you can accept or reject, as you choose. This dividend is the footnotes that punctuate your copy of TIME. They consist, generally, of material which could not be incorporated in the main body of a story without interrupting its continuity. Therefore, you can, if you wish, ignore them without losing the sense of the story. The subject has been a continuous and pleasant controversy for the pro and anti footnoters among...
...wheel of his car, rubbernecking, refighting the Civil War, Harry Truman had his wish of becoming a plain man again. Like other plain men, he was barred from a lookout tower on the field of Gettysburg by ropes and a sign: "Wet Paint...
...bacterial endocarditis, more widely known for his offhand feats of medical clairvoyance (he predicted Warren G. Harding's death after seeing him at a dinner party; muttered "enlarged gall bladder" after a first quick glance at Oscar Levant); after an intestinal operation; in Manhattan. In accordance with his wish, an autopsy was performed...