Word: hope
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World War II. Then Peter went to North Africa as a commando and contracted an infection in the other eye. From 1942 on, Lucky Beatty had gone from one operation to another trying desperately to retrieve his waning sight. Last month a cornea transplantation in Geneva gave him brief hope. Soon afterward the darkness set in again...
Elderly Dr. Capito, more than delighted, sent Composer Modarelli his $1,000 check and expressed the hope that River Saga would "flow on and on and on," and give other U.S. cities the notion of doing something like...
...late Rachel Kollock McDowell, longtime (28 years) religious news editor of the New York Times, was known to her more irreverent colleagues as "the lady bishop." In the hope of making news men "swear off swearing," she founded the Pure Language League, tried to get fellow staffers to sign pledges against cussing. Even in death Miss McDowell carried on her good fight. Her will, probated last week, left about $3,000 to the New York Newspaper Guild (of which she was not a member) to perpetuate the Pure Language League by distributing pamphlets. Said the Guild's Executive Vice...
Meanwhile, to gain a better understanding of the College food problem in general, the entire Council will talk with vice-President Theodore Reynolds at lunch next week. They hope to ascertain what has been done since student investigations of the food situation began last Spring...
Nevertheless, the local businessmen's associations are still clinging to their traditional optimism: they hope that improved traffic and road conditions, as well as the opening of Corcorans in Harvard Square this Friday, will help bring back the customers...