Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week was the baseball game between the ASOTS and the Faculty. Enthusiasm, of course, had flared for the game, for not only had the challenge come from the professor but one scholar was even heard to remark, "After we wipe up the diamond with those boys, they'll wish that they ahd been sent to Guadalcanal instead of Harvard...
...hand brake. It's perfectly useless-won't hold at all. And ... I wish they could somehow fix the jeep so that at certain speeds the singing of those heavy tires wouldn't sound like an approaching airplane...
...German regime" she is teaching English to German refugees. She added: "My only other contribution to victory lies in the fact that I have been allowed to give 14 blood donations to the plasma bank, and am about to give my 15th. I am in splendid health, and only wish the Red' Cross would permit me to donate more often. It just so happens that I am blind, though I do not let it bother or hinder...
...Miss Caroline Cook, an art teacher in a Brooklyn high school, recalled the recent rally in Manhattan for Mme. Chiang Kaishek. "I wish we in America had more of the virtues she possesses, in some of our high officials. You see, we realize that America is not perfect. When I get discouraged at the errors made in high places, I remind myself that 95% of ordinary folks everywhere are kindly, honest, helpful to other human beings. Do you feel that way about...
...thus provided between finance and politics gave politicians and investors of the same country a useful degree of freedom from each other's affairs. It is not a politician's business to be wholly consistent. Indeed it is often his duty to change. He may, for instance, wish to be stern toward a smaller country at one time, lenient two years later, and conciliatory three years after that. But any change that can radically affect values is a change the investor cannot afford...