Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your favor of the 7th announcing FORTUNE just received suggests a forthcoming publication which should prove to be most acceptable to the intelligent reading public. However, I am nearing my seventy-sixth birthday and while I hope to continue TIME, I am cutting off magazines. ... I wish you every success and regret that...
...York Harbor. The work done there consists chiefly in administering the billion-dollar Rockefeller fortune. Rev. Basil Jellicoe, cousin of Earl Jellicoe (John Rushworth) (Commander of the British grand fleet during the War), applied for a license to open in London a "pub" (public house) called "The Anchor."* "I hope to operate it to show how public houses can and should be run. I think we should make a profession of the publican - a great, an honorable profession. For that reason I think a publican college should be started where candidates would be trained first as social workers and second...
...been provided with a tutor in Greek. At my midday meal on Saturday, my brother, then a tutor in mathematics, brought me an oral order from the President to begin work on Monday. Obviously the President had nourished till the fifty-ninth minute of the eleventh hour the hope of finding somebody else...
...testifying that he had received the degree of A.B., had been eaten by rats in Wadsworth House. He petitioned for another diploma in its place. As I knew that the President's objection to duplicating a diploma was almost Draconian in its rigidity, I had scarcely a shred of hope for Mr. Barton; but I did write to Mr. Eliot, then at Mount Desert, suggesting that, since Wadsworth House was a College building, the rats might be regarded as our own rats, for whose conduct toward Mr. Barton the College was responsible. I have rarely been more surprised than when...
...Parley, which Great Britain, the United States, France, Italy, and Japan have signified their intention of attending, is viewed by Mr. Herter as "offering great hope, not only in the solution of problems left untouched by the 1922 Washington conference, such as cruisers of 10,000 tons and less, submarines, destroyers, and the like, but also in regard to the extension of the benefits of the Washington treaty by delaying the replacement of capital ships...