Word: willingness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Poet Eliot frequently had to sit most of the night while Artist Lewis worked feverishly on his portrait, which shows him looking dark and bitter in a grey-blue suit. When the picture was rejected he wrote to Lewis: "The portrait is one by which I am quite willing posterity...
A.N.P.A.'s committee on the subject noted only one development in the past year to which it could point with pride: a Supreme Court decision which gave Alma Lovell, a member of Jehovah's Witnesses, and all other freeborn Americans the right to distribute leaflets without first getting...
"We call upon all editors ... to recognize a growing criticism, to face it fairly, to set their houses in order, to be governed by good taste, by a sense of justice, by complete devotion to the public interest, and to toil unceasingly to educate our readers to such a sense...
(3) "That he will be willing to come to two or three meetings per year, at the request of the Chairman of the Board, to discuss with other Advisers and administrative officers problems of policy in the guidance of Freshmen."
The Widener purchasing department has not made a definite decision yet, but said, "we are willing to purchase any worthwhile books that we do not have." They expressed doubts if there were many books that they could use, however. Widener officials favor a cautious policy of removing the books from...