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Word: willingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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"To get one [a bonefish] is a recondite art" (TIME, May 29) would make one think the taking of the world's greatest gamefish was a privilege reserved for only a few expert anglers. Does TIME know neither how to catch the wily bonefish nor the names of aonefish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

In Paris, the French Government, although anxious to treat the matter as purely a local incident, was willing to go along with the British on whatever measures were agreed upon. But at week's end the British, involved up to their necks in building up a "Peace Front" to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: Lots of Trouble | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Until Doctor Gallup's enumerators reach Cambridge we shall have to remain unhappily ignorant of the relative strength at Harvard of the "tender-minded" and the "tough minded." But this we do know now: however receptive the class of '39 may be to President Conant's Baccalaureate advice "Neglect the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOR THE ALUMNI | 6/22/1939 | See Source »

Young Dr. Alvin Edward Strock of Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital has long furrowed his brow over this front-tooth problem. The simplest procedure, he thought, would be to insert a peg in the socket of the extracted tooth, then cement a false tooth to the protruding end...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Peg Teeth | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

According to President Conant's statement to me, it is his policy, in offering certain appointments without limit of time under which the appointee would contract to give a particular specified course, to stipulate that the appointee assent to a qualifying clause of the following nature: "If at any time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

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