Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concession to the upheaval caused by the war years, there will be a relaxation of the usual competition rules for the two upperclass jobs--Varsity and 150-pound managers--to allow any Sophomores who wish to enter the competition to do so. Freshmen candidates will compete for Freshman heavy and 150-pound managerial slots...
...long hours before dawn successive rumblings and tremors from the unseen mountain heralded increasingly violent showers of red-hot stones. Each volcanic groan made me wish I had never read the "Last Days of Pompet...
...basis which it is unable to create or maintain. This is absolutely false. The ideas of goodness in the broader sense are not the exclusive property of, or even result of, religion. The basic ideas of decent and cooperative behavior are but the inevitable product of intelligent people who wish to live together in harmony...
King of the Kitchen. His passionate people sometimes wish that he were a crook or a Casanova, a gambler or a drunk -it would be better than his correct futility. But George drinks mineral water with his meals, dislikes cards, is circumspect with women. At 31, he married beautiful Princess Elizabeth of Rumania, whose domestic accomplishments (embroidery, watercolors and cookery) distinguished her from her flamboyant mother, the late Queen Marie. Nevertheless, George's marriage ended in divorce in 1935 (Elizabeth now lives in Rumania and reportedly has grown very fat). A minimum of gossip has attended George...
With his retirement, Harvard will lose not only a great teacher but one of the top U.S. authorities on jurisprudence. His admirers say that he has revolutionized the teaching of law; his detractors agree that he has but wish he hadn't. He was the first to systematize what was only a vague stirring in men like Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and German jurists: the theory that law must look to the world around it as well as to its codes. He did much to change the accent from fixed rules (analytical jurisprudence) to social needs (sociological jurisprudence...