Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...initials of Henry A. Wallace . . . spell HAW, I suggest as his party's emblem the Haw tree (Viburnum prunifolium), specifically the Black Haw, sometimes called the Stag Bush. Should any artist wish to paint this phenomenon of nature, I give him Charles Sprague Sargent's description (Manual of the Trees of North America; Houghton Mifflin...
...student who has worked six hours as much or more than one who has worked six weeks, I judge there is to be a fault in the method of deriving it. And I question such transactions as that of the CRIMSON Editor with the Department of History. I merely wish to say that one ought not to revile Mr. Cramer's successes, where with a little reason it will be plain that the failures of the examination system are accountable...
...even morally weak. Peck appeals, as a very popular male star must, to both bobby-soxers and their mothers. He manages this feat without presenting himself as a big brother, as a cute, asexual nephew, or as a sophisticated porch climber. Men also immediately like him and wish him well; they feel that he is, in fact, an average human being-luckier, better looking and more gifted than they, but essentially one of themselves...
Local police authorities meanwhile squelched rumors headlined in the Boston Herald that the robbery was a "student prank" and that the money would be returned as dramatically as it was taken. One sergeant said, "I wish I could commit a prank like that...
...real danger," concludes the HTU release, "is that narrow-minded prejudice may so limit teaching that graduates of our schools will be unable to defend intelligently those principles which we all wish to preserve...