Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Texas . . , Mexicans do not ride in the so-called Jim Crow cars [TIME, Feb. 7]; they do not use the so-called Jim Crow toilets; they go to the same schools as all other Texans except Negroes . . . and Mexicans eat wherever they wish. True, one restaurant in one town did at one time put up a sign stating that Mexicans would not be served. Can you, or anyone else, hold that one is the total number of restaurants in the State of Texas...
...been my joy and privilege to bring up my three sons−to plan for their well-being and their education, and I wish to be identified with them...
...Daily Maroon to offer $750 in prizes for a motto to replace the present one, Cres-cat Scientia Vita Excolatur, which means "Let Knowledge Grow That Life May Be Enriched." But some people do not understand Latin, and others do not understand "enriched" as spiritually as President Hutchins would wish. He proposed a line from Walt Whitman: "Solitary, singing in the West, I strike up for a new world...
...past week I have been what I would call a reasonably patient listener to accounts, of the I-can-top-that variety, on how my classmates spent their leave. I have now received the composer's wish--the right to be heard...
Times readers reached for their pens; wrote the Rev. L. F. Harvey, of Shrewsbury: "He [Lord Lang] would have made the matter clearer had he said 'even at the cost of the lives of British and Allied troops.' . . . Does the Archbishop wish to convey that he regards human life as of less value than a monument?" Wrote Poet Sir John Squire, former editor of the London Mercury: "The Reverend Gentleman seems to think that stones are stones and St. Peter's but an organized quarry instead of a crystallization of the human spirit, building ad majorem...