Word: wishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...true, as rumors say, that Sealyhams have the bad taste to become nauseated when riding in a car, their aristocracy may be questioned. While I am ready to admit that all dogs are good dogs and ought to be loved and cherished for their qualities, I wish to go on record as saying that Boston bulls have the virtues of cleanliness, courage and trim appearance together with unshaken fidelity and are the peers of any fashionable dog that ever eked out an unhappy existence, plastered over with long hair. The cartoonists and a few society folks may enjoy the long...
...determine which offers submitted by numberless business concerns, are adapted to their abilities or to their tastes. It is increasingly clear to me, after discussing vocational questions for the past three years, that the great majority of Harvard seniors have no idea which held of business activity they wish to enter. They have seized eagerly any information in the form of pamphlets booklets or monographs which would serve as a genuine source of information regarding the various fields which are open. Vocational guidance is necessary at Harvard and it must be made available as soon as possible...
...wish to add my own appreciation of your excellent presentation of the views of the U. S. and the able manner in which you have contributed to the progress of the work of the commission and awakened new hopes of a practical means for the effective reduction of armaments...
...wish to see Mr. Hoover," he said politely to the guard...
...step forward in his campaign against impure ergot, which he declares is now entering the U. S. from Russia and Poland (TIME, April 15). A scientist, Dr. Rusby resented and denounced any suggestion that his attack on Russian and Polish ergot might arise from any other cause than his wish to see only the purest ergot used in medicine. The fact that a friend of his, Howard W. Ambruster, Manhattan importer, controlled a large portion of the available supply of Spanish ergot, had no bearing on his attitude, he said. Not only might it injure the cause of pure ergot...