Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Where's all this money that's meant to be floating around here in Princeton? I wish I knew. Certainly everyone down here can't be gushing with opulent riches as reported. Surely all the waiters in Commons, the workers in the library, laundry and other establishments around campus aren't rich men's sons just working to get more of that unmentionable stuff called Capital...
Bringing with him the latest works on Egyptology and copies of older works which were almost completely destroyed during the war, Garnot is looking forward to establishing his study group at the Ecole as a clearing house for research information which American students wish to find in Europe...
...Wonderful Life (Liberty Films), Jimmy Stewart remarks, "I wish I was dead." A sprite takes Jimmy seriously and shows him, in flashbacks, what would have happened if he had never lived...
...have sympathy and profound admiration for your spirit against the Japanese. I beg you to give up your belief in force, change your policy, partake in the government. . .help nationalize our armies and realize constitutional China . . . put an end to chaos. Once you join the government, if you wish General Ho Lung [veteran Communist commander] or anyone else to assume my command, I would welcome and assist him. With your assent I myself would serve under him obediently and loyally. A peaceful, united and democratic China is not only the need of our people but the hope of America...
...said a Harlow team just couldn't roll up a big score, but the scoreboard stop the Stadium late Saturday afternoon which read 49 to 0, in the Crimson's gaudiest touchdown parade since its 61 to 0 slaughter of a de-emphasized Chicago eleven in 1939, made them wish they hadn't spoken...