Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have a total yield of 40 to 80 million barrels, will establish the Cullen Foundation. The money will go for various educational, health, and charitable purposes, but chiefly to the University of Houston and the new Texas Medical Center. Said Cullen: "My wife and I are that selfish we wish to see our money spent during our lifetime, so that we may derive great pleasure from...
...Lowe (who had studied at Monte Cassino) and Morgan Librarian Dr. Belle da Costa Greene. They had issued a statement, conveying "to the Abbot and monks of Monte Cassino, now in exile, the expression of our sorrow and sympathy in this hour of tragedy and trial. We . . . ardently wish to contribute our mite to hasten the day of its reconstruction...
This modest hope was expressed 32 years ago by the late Booker T. Washington. As medicos this week marked the 33rd annual observance of Booker Washington's "National Negro Health Week," his wish had come true: today the life expectancy of U.S. Negroes (North & South) is 57 years...
...Lion. This biography by Syracuse University Professor Terhune is the best documented life to date of Victorian England's least-documented poet. "Fitz," a lifelong friend of Carlyle, Thackeray and Tennyson, came of a rich and ancient family, was able to shape his life about as he wished it. He did not wish to become a literary lion. "Tell Thackeray," he wrote firmly to a friend at the age of 21, "that he is never to invite me to his house, as I never intend to go. ... I am going to become a great bear; and have...
...source of charm. Professor Edman's gift for talking about philosophy has made him one of the prides of Columbia's faculty and a crowd-drawing lecturer. The same gift, at work in his good-humored essays, will endear him to readers who do not wish to put up their hands and ask searching questions...