Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they will line up: As line coach, it looks like Forrest "Butch" Jordan, currently listed as assistant line coach in the Ann Arbor pigskin picture. The former letterman guard and ex-Western Conference wrestling champion, when asked if he planned to follow Valpey to Harvard, said, "I only wish I know...
...wish to call your attention to a misquotation in the Religion section of your issue of Feb. 2. The writer for that section has placed an extra "not" in his quotation of Cardinal Griffin's statement concerning the effect of contraceptive devices on the validity of marriage. This mistake changes the entire meaning. . . . One would expect a magazine like TIME with its great facilities and circulation to be more careful in its proofreading-or hire a more competent Religion Editor...
...takes so little to be happy. . . . Now all I would wish, in this winter of the spirit, is to fall asleep and wake up in a luxury of light and warmth; not to have every morsel of coal dragged unwillingly from the bowels of the coal mine; not to have all food weighed and balanced up in calories, with so many million deaths anticipated, calmly, from cold and starvation; but to pass on to the light and warmth of life...
Most readers will wish Hermann Broch had put his essays in one volume, his novels in another. But to anyone who has to deal with post-Hitler Germany, The Sleepwalkers may seem almost compulsory reading, much as Main Street and Babbitt would be required reading for anyone studying the crash...
...advise and enjoin those who direct the paper in the tomorrows never to advocate any cause for personal profit or preferment. I would wish it always to be 'the tocsin' and devote itself to the policies of equality and justice to the underprivileged. If the paper should at any time be the voice of self-interest or become the spokesman of privilege or selfishness it would be untrue to its history. ... I have never regarded the News & Observer as property, but [as] having an unpurchasable soul...