Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...read your enjoyable review of Cross Creek by Marjorie Rawlings [TIME, March 23]. And ... I wish to state that Miss Rawlings clearly does not know her hogs. . . . She states on p. 263 that a sow was suckling pigs and at the same time being serviced by a boar. A sow will refuse to take a boar until her previous litter are weaned. However in three days after the pigs are weaned she is willing to take. In this respect hogs are smarter than men and women as they thereby gain strength to support adequately the new litter. I have raised...
...ration is three a month. Baked spaghetti and macaroni dishes are almost impossible to make, because farinaceous foods are either unobtainable or rationed to near zero. Soho shops still sell ravioli occasionally, but it is filled only with spinach. Most people have forgotten the taste of cheese or wish they could forget it. All sausage is partly packed with bread crumbs. More than a quarter of a pound of sugar might be allotted each person weekly if so much were not being sent...
...this, in the week of Bataan's fall, was doubly harassing for Douglas MacArthur and the staff which had come with him from the Philippines. As soldiers, they might agree that nothing more could have been done to save Bataan. As men, they were bound to wish that more had been done. Their uncertain status in Australia did nothing to lighten their gloom...
Newly promoted Bombardment George might wish he had planes like Martin's dreamboats. But he was doing pretty well. His A.F.F.C. was only ten months old, but already bigger than all 17 privately owned U.S. airlines combined. And by 1943-when U.S. factories will be pounding out 125,000 planes annually-the A.F.F.C. will be far bigger than all the world's airlines put together...
League fans agree: the Philadelphia Phil lies (who wish to be known henceforth as Phils) will finish last. For first place there is no such unanimity. This year it is a toss-up between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the St. Louis Cardinals, with the Cincinnati Reds close behind...