Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bronx, the Navy notified Louise Clifton of her husband's death. She went to bed sobbing. Then a good German neighbor (a Mrs. Goering) advised her to eat a herring on New Year's Eve, make a wish. Louise did. At midnight a messenger boy knocked at her door. It was all a mistake: Coxswain Clarence Calvin Clifton is still alive...
Norwegians, your fellow-countrymen are here, and with them your British allies.-We wish you a good Christmas and a happy New Year. We bring you this greeting from all free...
...exception to the general rule regarding Defense courses, it can be counted for academic credit if taken as a fifth course. Men who pass Physics 71b are eligible to apply for Army-Navy School. Many additional advanced courses in electronics and communication engineering for students who wish to qualify for research work are available on our regular course list. All capable men who have time for additional courses are strongly urged to take them...
...coming spring semester provided that the enrollment is sufficient to warrant the class. Students enrolling for this edition of Physics C will be required to begin Mathematics A at the same time, if they have not already begun that course. Students now taking Physics B or C who wish to go on with the subject should also begin Mathematics A in February if they have not already done so. Courses in electricity and mathematics will be available during the summer term for students of reasonable ability who finish B, C, or F in June. Men in these groups who stand...
...their prospectus seems to neglect the all-important fundamental of how they plan to cram seventeen weeks worth of knowledge into the heads of their students in twelve weeks. In the stuffy heat of a Cambridge summer between June 29 and September 19 any undergraduates who wish to hasten their graduation will attend two lectures a day five times a week. For his work in this period a student will receive the same credit as he would in the seventeen weeks of the fall and spring terms attending at least the same number of, classes a week. Apparently the summer...