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Word: wishfulness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Further opportunities in Austria include, according to Heller, several national full fellowships for American music students who wish to travel to the Salzburg festival in Austria next summer. These fellowships have been arranged after consultation with the Austrian Ministry of Education, he said. He added that he would be available in the Winthrop House Library to anyone wishing further information on the two possibilities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University of Vienna Offers Board, Lodging | 11/20/1946 | See Source »

...been immersed in Chinese affairs, first as a correspondent and then as confidant, adviser and sometimes as policymaker. In March, when U.S. Navy doctors in Honolulu told him he could not survive a lung and stomach cancer aggravated by long internment in a Japanese prison camp, his only wish was to die in China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Home to Shanghai | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

Created to handle all V. A. insurance problems that student veterans may wish to settle, the new office will be directed by Stanley Gruber of the Boston Regional Office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Office Set Up Here To Cope with V.A. Insurance | 11/16/1946 | See Source »

...Russia's sphere of influence. ... I also made friends with and frequently visited the D.P. camps in Germany. These Europeans had nothing, and their prospective material future was more than dark; but their optimism and dignified faith was strong and unshakable. Europe is not spiritually beaten. I only wish I had the eloquence of Cicero and Shakespeare's vocabulary to tell you why, instead of being Norwegian struggling with a foreign language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 11, 1946 | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

Table Talk. In Billings, Mont., Elaine Kjos one day murmured in a restaurant: "I wish I had a name like . . . Smith," heard a diner say "My name's Smith," a few months later married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 11, 1946 | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

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