Word: wishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...insisted that his company did not wish the conference to fail, but was interested in knowing if cruiser reductions were to be made. He thought Shearer was paid too much, that his "ordinary business judgment had been disarmed" by Shearer's plausibility. Shearer's reports had been full of "bunk." He had only glanced at two or three, and when he learned of Shearer's big-navy propaganda he had insisted on his discharge. Mr. Bardo admitted that Shearer was later re-employd by Laurence Russell Ilder on a project for building liners to cross the Atlantic in four days...
...There are three things which we cannot renounce. First, we wish to keep our submarine fleet which we believe is strictly necessary for the defense of our shores and our colonial empire. Second, we must assure the protection of our colonial routes, otherwise our colonial empire will disappear. Third, we cannot forget that our needs must be calculated after account has been taken of the fact that France has coasts in two widely separated seas...
What U. S. politician could turn upon a stranger and say, as he once did: "Sir, I have never seen you before and have no desire to see you again. However, since you appear to wish to lose £100 I will dive for that sum from the top springboard of the hotel diving pool tomorrow at eleven!" Yet from the man whom his college classmates knew as "Galloper" Smith, from the man who was the youngest Lord High Chancellor of Britain's UTILITARIAN BIRKENHEAD . . . went to see his boss. history, who has been Secretary of State for India...
...rumoured in past years that this course was considered to easy that University Hall sent men to the Music Building to find out whether Professor Hill was even giving lectures. In spite of this reputation the course is one of the best open to students with good grades who wish to fulfill distribution requirements, and at the same time get an excellent survey of music from Palestrina to the present day. Professor Hill is one of the most amusing lectures in the University and deserves special credit for recognizing that most students in the college like to lighten a hard...
...voice, the language, of the world in action. To the men in college who are seeking constructive things they can mentally accumulate, the news offers the best available advance map and chart of those fields where college "cadets" sooner or ready, a convenient exercise for those who wish to keep intellectually "in training." In turn, the news requires a taste and appreciation on the part of its readers. This further constitutes a helpful influences for those to cultivate who would make their "first solo" flights successful...