Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Correspondents Dick Tregaskis, I.N.S.; Robin Miller, New Zealand War Department; Jack Bowling, Chicago Sun; Bob Cromie, Chicago Tribune ; Ralph Morse, LIFE; Henry Keys, London Daily Express; Bill Hippie, A.P.; J. A. Bockhurst, News of the Day; H. E. Astley Hawkins, Reuters; and myself wish you all a Happy New Year from Guadalcanal...
Clark Gable, who wanted to be an aerial gunner when he joined the Army last August, got his wish: he graduated from the Army Air Forces Gunnery School at Florida's Tyndall Field, was assigned to Fort George Wright, Wash., where bomber crews for combat duty are trained...
...pleasing vitamin in music is consonance, as in such agreeable harmonies as the standard Do Mi Sol Do. When composers wish to ennoble, invigorate or inspire their listeners (as for example in the opening bars of the Star-Spangled Banner) they depend heavily on consonances. An upsetting virus in music is dissonance, a combination of sounds full of sonorous tension which may produce anything from vague impatience to acute aural distress. When composers wish to disturb their listeners, make them weep, sigh or foam at the mouth, they do it with dissonances...
Those who wish to serve in the mountain division should fill out the regular application blank to be acquired at the War Service Information Office at 12 Little Hall. Those already inducted into the regular army may also apply for transfer to the ski and mountain troops...
These courses, meeting for four hours every Saturday morning for fifteen weeks, are still open to teachers who wish to equip themselves to train students in these vital war studies, and although a preliminary meeting took place on January 9, registration will not close until this Saturday. No tuition will be charged. This is part of the war training program of the Common wealth of Massachusetts Department of Education, according to the Graduate School...