Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...development of a plan of abolishing gate receipts would naturally be paralleled by a furthering of intramural athletics, and an ultimate goal of the least possible intercollegiate sport. If this were carried through to perfection, the problem of individual professionalism would be settled finally; for the spirit that moves anxious alumni to subscribe to funds that will aid so-and-so to stay in college a while longer and insure the Big Rival's defeat next fall, would hardly stir in an appeal for financial aid to help the Freshmen beat the Sophomores...
After the War, the irrepressible first mate, Kapitänleutnant Helmuth von Mücke, said that the captains of captured British ships always seemed more anxious about whether they would be allowed to save their supply of whiskey than about anything else. It also seemed to Kap.-Lt. von Mücke that the captains' loyalty to the line employing them was greater than to their country. In several instances, he said, they revealed to him the proximity of ships of competing lines...
...hugest, most lavishly gorgeous mansion in Dairen-near Port Arthur on the Yellow Sea-contains 35 pleasingly proportioned young women of assorted races, with their servants. Last week these young women were extremely anxious about their Chinaman and whence next month's rent was coming. They went down on their marble terrace and peered through foolish, expensive little opera glasses out over the Yellow Sea, strained their eyes toward the Chinese coast, tried to see a low, rakish ship. Aboard would be, they hoped, the "Sweetest Sugar Daddy in the World," as Marshal Chang Tsung-chang is called...
...statement on the subject was forthcoming from Cornell rowing authorities at a later hour last night. Tech is very anxious not to miss rowing with Harvard this year, for it is the first time in rowing history that she has ever had a fighting chance to win. If the Ithicans refuse to let her enter the race Saturday, however, it is doubtful if her wish will be gratified, for mid-week races are seldom, if ever, scheduled, and the Engineers and Harvard are both previously engaged for the afternoon of Saturday...
...visitors' lineup contains four veterans of last year's strong team. They will all be extraordinarily anxious to score a victory over Harvard on account of the outcome of the 1927 and 1928 contests. In the former year they were defeated 7 to 5 though outhitting Harvard by a nearly 2 to 1 ratio. Last year the hits were even and it was only a single-inning rally that enabled the home team to emerge victorious...